• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.383-392
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• 2018

For prompt gamma ray imaging for biomedical applications and environmental radiation monitoring, we propose herein a multiple-scattering Compton camera (MSCC). MSCC consists of three or more semiconductor layers with good energy resolution, and has potential for simultaneous detection and differentiation of multiple radio-isotopes based on the measured energies, as well as three-dimensional (3D) imaging of the radio-isotope distribution. In this study, we developed an analytic simulator and a 3D image generator for a MSCC, including the physical models of the radiation source emission and detection processes that can be utilized for geometry and performance prediction prior to the construction of a real system. The analytic simulator for a MSCC records coincidence detections of successive interactions in multiple detector layers. In the successive interaction processes, the emission direction of the incident gamma ray, the scattering angle, and the changed traveling path after the Compton scattering interaction in each detector, were determined by a conical surface uniform random number generator (RNG), and by a Klein-Nishina RNG. The 3D image generator has two functions: the recovery of the initial source energy spectrum and the 3D spatial distribution of the source. We evaluated the analytic simulator and image generator with two different energetic point radiation sources (Cs-137 and Co-60) and with an MSCC comprising three detector layers. The recovered initial energies of the incident radiations were well differentiated from the generated MSCC events. Correspondingly, we could obtain a multi-tracer image that combined the two differentiated images. The developed analytic simulator in this study emulated the randomness of the detection process of a multiple-scattering Compton camera, including the inherent degradation factors of the detectors, such as the limited spatial and energy resolutions. The Doppler-broadening effect owing to the momentum distribution of electrons in Compton scattering was not considered in the detection process because most interested isotopes for biomedical and environmental applications have high energies that are less sensitive to Doppler broadening. The analytic simulator and image generator for MSCC can be utilized to determine the optimal geometrical parameters, such as the distances between detectors and detector size, thus affecting the imaging performance of the Compton camera prior to the development of a real system.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.46-53
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• 2010

항공기용 복합재료 내부 여러 층에서 발생하는 박리를 정량적으로 평가하기 위한 X-ray 후방산란 검사장치를 개발하였다. 복합재료 두께방향으로의 역산란 밀도변화로부터 층간 박리를 검사하는 슬릿 방식의 카메라와 컴퓨터로 제어되는 X-ray 선원, 그리고 센서로 구성되는 X-ray 후방산란장치를 제작하여 그 성능을 충격하중에 의해 만들어진 인공결함시편을 이용해 검증하였다. 결함평가를 위해 복합재료내 산란장의 크기를 이론적으로 계산하는 수학적 해석 모델을 볼츠만 방정식을 이용하여 제안하였으며 적응필터 알고리즘을 사용하여 산란 노이즈를 최소화 하였다. 다중 박리 결함을 X-ray 후방산란장치를 통해 효과적으로 검출하였으며, 박리 위치와 박리 상태를 모두 정확하게 검사할 수 있음을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.