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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
Applicant:
Charles K. Gary, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Charles K. Gary, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adelphi Technology, Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for imaging objects with x rays using an x-ray tube, refractive x-ray lens and area detector. Cross sectional images of individual planes within an object are achieved through tomographic and laminographic exposure and image processing. The use of refractive x-ray lenses to achieve high resolution eliminates the need for vanishingly small microspot x-ray sources to achieve high resolution that current x-ray tomographic and laminographic systems suffer.