X-ray tomography and laminography
US7177389B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 7, 2005 |
| Grant date | Feb 13, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 7, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2223/419
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
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.
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