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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Matthew T. Grimshaw, Seattle, WA (US);
Talion Edwards, Wentzille, MO (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Tacoma, WA (US);
Daniel J. Wright, Mercer Island, WA (US);
James E. Engel, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Morteza Safai, Newcastle, WA (US);
Yuan-Jye Wu, Issaquah, WA (US);
Taisia Tsukruk Lou, St. Louis, MO (US);
Rodney S. Wright, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system for quantifying x-ray backscatter system performance is disclosed. The system includes one or more x-ray backscatter detectors, an x-ray tube, a support, and a plurality of rods mounted on the support and arranged in groups. Each group of rods includes at least two rods having the same width. The system also includes a user interface configured to connect to the x-ray backscatter detectors to receive a backscatter signal from the x-ray backscatter detectors associated with the x-ray tube, where the user interface plots a modulation transfer function representing x-ray backscatter for each rod of the plurality of rods from x-rays transmitted by the x-ray tube.