NDLI: Energy-resolving neutron transmission radiography at the ISIS pulsed spallation source with a high-resolution neutron counting detector

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Author	Tremsin, Anton S. McPhate, Jason B. Kockelmann, Winfried A. Vallerga, John V. Siegmund, Oswald H.W. Bruce Feller, W.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Chilton, OX11 0QX, UK (Kockelmann, Winfried A.) \|\| Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA (Tremsin, Anton S.; McPhate, Jason B.; Vallerga, John V.; Siegmund, Oswald H.W.) \|\| Nova Scientific, Inc. 10 Picker Rd., Sturbridge, MA 01566, USA (Bruce Feller, W.)
Abstract	Neutron transmission radiography can be strongly enhanced by adding spectroscopic data spatially correlated with the attenuation coefficient. This can now be achieved at pulsed neutron sources, utilizing a neutron detector with high spatial and temporal resolution. The energy of transmitted neutrons can be recovered from their time-of-flight, simultaneously with the acquisition of the transmission radiographic image by a pixilated detector. From this, the positions of Bragg edges can be obtained for each pixel of the radiographic image. The combination of both spectroscopic and transmission information enables high spatial resolution studies to be carried out on material composition, phase transitions, texture variations, as well as strain analysis, as long as the resolution and statistics are favorable. This paper presents initial results from proof-of-principle experiments on energy-resolved neutron transmission radiography, using a neutron counting detector consisting of neutron-sensitive microchannel plates (MCPs) and a Medipix2 electronic readout. These experiments demonstrate that the position of Bragg edges are measurable with a few mÅ resolution in each 55 μm pixel of the detector, corresponding to ΔE/E ∼ 0.1%. However, the limited intensity of most current neutron sources requires a compromise between the energy resolution and the area over which it was integrated. Still, the latter limitation can be overcome by combining energy information for several neighboring pixels, while transmission radiography can still be done at the limit of the detector spatial resolution.
Starting Page	2902
Ending Page	2908
File Size	6330670
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424427147
ISSN	10957863
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774973
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-10-19
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Neutrons Radiography Intersymbol interference Detectors Energy resolution Spatial resolution Spectroscopy Image edge detection Attenuation Pixel
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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