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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Mitchell J. Myjak, Richland, WA (US);
Carolyn E. Seifert, Kennewick, WA (US);
Scott J. Morris, Kennewick, WA (US);
Mitchell J. Myjak, Richland, WA (US);
Carolyn E. Seifert, Kennewick, WA (US);
Scott J. Morris, Kennewick, WA (US);
Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for imaging a radiation source, and a device that utilizes these methods that in one embodiment include the steps of: calculating at least one Compton cone of a first parameter of a radiation emission from information received from a sensor occurrence; and tracing this Compton cone on to a unit sphere having preselected characteristics using an estimated angular uncertainty to limit at least a portion of said tracing. In another embodiment of the invention at least two Compton cones are calculated and then intersected upon a predefined surface such as a sphere. These intersection points can then be iterated over a preselected series of prior events.