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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2005
Katherine Chandler, Ithaca, NY (US);
Tatiana Chelkovenko, Moscow, RU;
David Hammer, Ithaca, NY (US);
Sergei Pikuz, Moscow, RU;
Daniel Sinars, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Byungmoo Song, Ithaca, NY (US);
Katherine Chandler, Ithaca, NY (US);
Tatiana Chelkovenko, Moscow, RU;
David Hammer, Ithaca, NY (US);
Sergei Pikuz, Moscow, RU;
Daniel Sinars, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Byungmoo Song, Ithaca, NY (US);
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A radiograph system with an anode plate, a cathode plate, and a power source coupled to said anode plate and the cathode plate. At least two wires coupled between the anode plate and the cathode plate provide a configuration to form an X-pinch having a photon source size of less than five microns at energies above 2.5 keV. Material at the configuration forming the X-pinch vaporizes upon application of a suitable current to the wires forming a dense hot plasma and emitting a single x-ray pulse with sufficient photons having energies in the range of from about 2.5 keV to about 20 keV to provide a phase contrast image of an object in the path of the photons. Multiple simultaneous images may be formed of a plurality of objects. Suitable filters and x-ray detectors are provided.