Through-the-wall sensor systems based on hard x-ray imaging optics

Tomasz Jannson; Michael Gertsenshteyn; Victor Grubsky; Pauline Amouzou; Richard Koziol

doi:10.1117/12.718765

4 May 2007 Through-the-wall sensor systems based on hard x-ray imaging optics

Tomasz Jannson, Michael Gertsenshteyn, Victor Grubsky, Pauline Amouzou, Richard Koziol

Proceedings Volume 6538, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VI; 65380A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718765
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper discusses a new approach to X-ray non-intrusive (NDE) inspection based on hard X-ray imaging optics. A new X-ray lens, called lobster-eye-lens (LEL) is the transmission lens, based on reflection optics, with grazing-angle deflection of 0.2° and photon energy of 40-100 keV. The lens reflection-optics is based on large, high-quality X-ray mirrors with r.m.s. lower than 1 nm. The through-the-wall inspection capability of such a system, based on Compton back-scattering, can be applied for longer ranges, (up to 100 m in the air), and thick walls (over 2 cm for wood, and over 2 mm for metal). CONOPS examples are given for homeland security applications.

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Tomasz Jannson, Michael Gertsenshteyn, Victor Grubsky, Pauline Amouzou, and Richard Koziol "Through-the-wall sensor systems based on hard x-ray imaging optics", Proc. SPIE 6538, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VI, 65380A (4 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718765

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