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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2007
Applicant:
Klaus-peter Ziock, Clinton, TN (US);
Inventor:
Klaus-Peter Ziock, Clinton, TN (US);
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Livermore, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a vehicle, a single detector plane simultaneously measures radiation coming through two coded-aperture masks, one on either side of the detector. To determine which side of the vehicle a source is, the two shadow masks are inverses of each other, i.e., one is a mask and the other is the anti-mask. All of the data that is collected is processed through two versions of an image reconstruction algorithm. One treats the data as if it were obtained through the mask, the other as though the data is obtained through the anti-mask.