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20080226034 | Power modulation of a scanning beam for imaging, therapy, and/or diagnosis - An assembly comprising a radiation source to generate a beam of radiation, a modulator for modulating the power of the beam of radiation as a function of the position of the beam within a field-of-view to maintain the beam's power within a desired exposure level as the beam scans the field-of-view, and a reflector oscillating in a sinusoidal manner to direct the beam of radiation onto a field-of-view. | 09-18-2008 |
20080226035 | X-RAY EXAMINATION APPARATUS AND X-RAY EXAMINATION METHOD USING THE SAME - An X-ray examination apparatus changes a position of each X-ray sensor by rotating a sensor base, and resets a starting position of X-ray emission that becomes a X-ray focal position so that the X-ray enters each X-ray sensor after the position thereof is changed. A scanning X-ray source deflects an electron beam to easily change the position where the electron beam impinges a target of the X-ray source to an arbitrary location. The irradiating position of the electron beam then can be easily moved according to an accumulated irradiation time on the target. Therefore, maintenance can be performed without interrupting the X-ray examination. | 09-18-2008 |
20080317211 | X-Ray Lens Assembly and X-Ray Device Incorporating Said Assembly - An X-ray lens assembly, a device including the X-ray lens assembly and a method of manufacturing the X-ray lens assembly are described. The X-ray assembly comprises a tube member ( | 12-25-2008 |
20090010394 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A system is in a standby mode as an imaging preparation condition in step S | 01-08-2009 |
20090086921 | X-RAY DIFFRACTION APPARATUS AND X-RAY DIFFRACTION METHOD - In an X-ray diffraction method using the parallel beam method, an X-ray parallel beam is incident on a sample, and diffracted X-rays from the sample are reflected at a mirror and thereafter detected by an X-ray detector. The reflective surface of the mirror has a shape of an equiangular spiral that has a center located on the surface of the sample. A crystal lattice plane that causes reflection is parallel to the reflective surface at any point on the reflective surface. The X-ray detector is one-dimensional position sensitive in a plane parallel to the diffraction plane. A relative positional relationship between the mirror and the X-ray detector is determined so that reflected X-rays from different points on the reflective surface of the mirror reach different points on the X-ray detector respectively. This X-ray diffraction method is superior in angular resolution, and is small in X-ray intensity reduction, and is simple in structure. | 04-02-2009 |
20090092231 | X-RAY DEVICE FOR PRODUCING X-RAY IMAGES - X-ray device for producing X-ray images is provided. The X-ray device includes a radiation generator unit embodied for the purpose of generating an X-ray field and an image receiver that has a larger receiving area compared to the area of the X-ray field that is to be generated or has been generated, wherein the radiation generator unit and the receiving area of the image receiver are embodied to be movable relative to one another. | 04-09-2009 |
20090116619 | Area x-ray or UV camera system for high-intensity beams - A system in one embodiment includes a source for directing a beam of radiation at a sample; a multilayer mirror having a face oriented at an angle of less than 90 degrees from an axis of the beam from the source, the mirror reflecting at least a portion of the radiation after the beam encounters a sample; and a pixellated detector for detecting radiation reflected by the mirror. A method in a further embodiment includes directing a beam of radiation at a sample; reflecting at least some of the radiation diffracted by the sample; not reflecting at least a majority of the radiation that is not diffracted by the sample; and detecting at least some of the reflected radiation. A method in yet another embodiment includes directing a beam of radiation at a sample; reflecting at least some of the radiation diffracted by the sample using a multilayer mirror; and detecting at least some of the reflected radiation. | 05-07-2009 |
20090196399 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN IMAGE - In order to detect an image generated by an image source, a mirror arrangement is arranged between the image source and a detector. The mirror arrangement includes two spaced-apart deflection mirrors, which are parallel to each other or form an acute angle of less than 90° between them. In particular when the image source is a scintillator layer, shielding of X-rays from the detector with simultaneous compact dimensioning of the apparatus is achieved in this manner. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196400 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN IMAGE - In order to detect an image generated by an image source, a mirror arrangement is arranged between the image source and a detector. The mirror arrangement includes two spaced-apart deflection mirrors, which are parallel to each other or form an acute angle of less than 90° between them. In particular when the image source is a scintillator layer, shielding of X-rays from the detector with simultaneous compact dimensioning of the apparatus is achieved in this manner. | 08-06-2009 |
20090257563 | Approach and device for focusing x-rays - In the present invention we propose a new device for x-ray optics which is an analogy to the zone plates but working for higher x-ray energies. This is achieved by using both refraction and diffraction of the x-rays and building the new device(s) in a three dimensional structure, contrary to the zone plates which are basically a two dimensional device. The three dimensional structure is built from a multitude of prisms, utilizing both refraction and diffraction of incoming x-rays to shape the overall x-ray flux. The result will be the first ever device achieving true two dimensional focusing in the x-ray energy range usually employed in medical imaging and may be used in a wide area of applications in this field and in other fields of x-ray imaging. The device will further be fairly straight forward to produce in large volumes. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262900 | X-RAY FOCUSING DEVICE - Disclosed is an X-ray reflecting device and an X-ray reflecting element constituting the X-ray reflecting device capable of facilitating a reduction in weight and being prepared in a relatively simple manner. The X-ray reflecting element of the present invention comprises a body made of a solid silicon, and a plurality of slits formed in the body in such a manner as to penetrate from a front surface to a back surface of the body. Each of the slits has a wall surface serving as an X-ray reflecting surface. To allow the slits in the respective X-ray reflecting elements to be located in a given positional relationship with each other, the X-ray reflecting device of the present invention comprises a plural number of the X-ray reflecting elements, which are formed into a multilayered structure in such a manner or arranged side-by-side in a horizontal direction in such a manner as to allow the slits in the respective X-ray reflecting elements to be located in a given positional relationship with each other, or stacked on each other in a vertical direction to form a stacked structure in such a manner as to allow the slits in the respective X-ray reflecting elements to be located in a given positional relationship with each other. Further, the X-ray reflecting device may comprise a plural number of the stacked structures arranged side-by-side in a horizontal direction. | 10-22-2009 |
20090279670 | X-RAY GENERATOR WITH POLYCAPILLARY OPTIC - An x-ray generating system includes a source of x-ray radiation, a waveguide bundle optic for collimating the x-ray radiation produced by the source, a focusing optic for focusing the collimated x-ray radiation to a focal point. | 11-12-2009 |
20090296889 | HIGH INTENSITY X-RAY BEAM SYSTEM - An x-ray optical system for producing high intensity x-ray beams. The system includes an optic with a surface formed by revolving a defined contour around a revolving axis that is different than the geometric symmetric axis of the optic. Accordingly, the system may use a source that has a circular emission profile or a large source to provide increased flux to a sample. | 12-03-2009 |
20100014641 | High-Resolution X-Ray Optic and Method for Constructing an X-Ray Optic - Described are optical apparatuses and methods for forming optical apparatuses. The optical apparatus includes a plurality of individually fabricated segments and a holder. Each of the plurality of individually fabricated segments include an inner annular surface and an outer contact surface opposite to the inner annular surface. Each of the inner annular reflecting surfaces define a longitudinal segment axis. The holder contacts each of the outer contact surfaces of the plurality of individually fabricated segments. Each of the longitudinal segment axes of the plurality of individually fabricated segments are linearly aligned. | 01-21-2010 |
20100272239 | X-RAY BEAM DEVICE - The invention refers to an X-ray beam device for X-ray analytical applications, comprising an X-ray source designed such as to emit a divergent beam of X-rays; and an optical assembly designed such as to focus said beam onto a focal spot, wherein said optical assembly comprises a first reflecting optical element, a monochromator device and a second reflecting optical element sequentially arranged between said source and said focal spot, wherein said first optical element is designed such as to collimate said beam in two dimensions towards said monochromator device, and wherein said second optical element is designed such as to focus the beam coming from said monochromator device in two dimensions onto said focal spot. | 10-28-2010 |
20110026682 | X-RAY BEAM PROCESSOR - An x-ray beam processor system that includes an x-ray beam generator for generating x-ray beams; a collecting cone that includes multilayer waveguide optics; a condensing cone that includes multilayer waveguide optics; and polycapillary tubes with channels, where the polycapillary tubes link the collecting cone and the condensing cone. | 02-03-2011 |
20110110499 | X-RAY REFLECTING DEVICE - Provided is a technique for X-ray reflection, such as an X-ray reflecting mirror, capable of achieving a high degree of smoothness of a reflecting surface, high focusing (reflecting) performance, stability in a curved surface shape, and a reduction in overall weight. A silicon plate (silicon wafer) is subjected to thermal plastic deformation to form an X-ray reflecting mirror having a reflecting surface with a stable curved surface shape. The silicon wafer can be deformed to any shape by applying a pressure thereto in a hydrogen atmosphere at a high temperature of about 1300° C. The silicon plate may be simultaneously subjected to hydrogen annealing to further reduce roughness of a silicon surface to thereby provide enhanced reflectance. | 05-12-2011 |
20110299661 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the cladding has a periodic structure in which multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged in two-dimensional directions perpendicular to the guiding direction of X-ray; and the periodic structure has a period of 100 nm or less. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299662 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced is realized with an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that the real part of refractive index of materials is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the cladding has a one-dimensional periodic structure consisting of at least two materials having different real parts of refractive index; one of the materials is inorganic one, and another one of materials is any of an organic material, a gas, or vacuum; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at the interface between the core and the cladding is smaller than a Bragg angle depending on the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 12-08-2011 |
20120093297 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes, a diffraction grating that diffracts an electromagnetic wave emitted from an electromagnetic wave source, a shield grating including a shield portion that prevents transmission of the electromagnetic wave and a plurality of transmission portions that allows the electromagnetic wave to transmit therethrough, and a detector that detects the electromagnetic wave transmitted through the transmission portions of the shield grating. The diffraction grating forms an interference pattern in a grid pattern by diffracting the electromagnetic wave; the shield grating has the plurality of transmission portions arranged two-dimensionally; and a ratio of an area of the transmission portion to the area of a unit pattern composed of a portion of the shield portion and one transmission portion of the plurality of transmission portions is larger than 0.25. | 04-19-2012 |
20120207280 | X-Ray Focusing Device - The X-ray focusing device includes a point/parallel type multi-capillary X-ray lens (MCX) and a point/parallel type single capillary X-ray lens (SCX). MCX and SCX are positioned so that the end face of the parallel end of SCX is positioned closed to the focal point position on the converging end of MCX so that the optical axes of the two coincide. X-rays that are efficiently collected by MCX are emitted from the converging end and become incident to the end face of parallel end of SCX so that the X-rays are efficiently incorporated into SCX. The X-rays are then irradiated from the converging end of SCX onto focal point having a small diameter. This allows taking advantages of MCX and SCX while compensating for their disadvantages. | 08-16-2012 |
20120269327 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core. The core has a periodic structure formed in at least one period direction. The periodic structure includes periodically arranged members made of material having different refractive index real parts. The core is surrounded by the cladding in the plane perpendicular to a wave-guiding direction. The Bragg angle obtained from the periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than the total reflection critical angle at which X-rays are incident on the interface between the cladding and the core. The at least one period direction is the direction of at least one fundamental vector expressing the periodicity of the periodic structure in a plane of the core perpendicular to the wave-guiding direction. | 10-25-2012 |
20120281816 | PHASE CONTROLLER - A reflection surface | 11-08-2012 |
20120328082 | X-RAY MIRROR, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE MIRROR, AND X-RAY APPARATUS - Provided is an X-ray mirror, a method of producing the X-rat mirror, and an X-ray apparatus. The X-ray mirror comprises: a substrate; and an X-ray reflecting structure formed of multiple regions present on the substrate, in which the X-ray reflecting structure comprises a mesostructured film that has the multiple regions having different structural periods in a normal direction of the substrate. Thus, there can be reduced the absorption loss of an X-ray of the mirror that reflects X-rays having different energies. | 12-27-2012 |
20130010929 | REFLECTIVE SURFACE SHAPE CONTROLLABLE MIRROR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE SURFACE SHAPE CONTROLLABLE MIRROR - The device is configured from: a reflective surface shape controllable mirror in which a band-shaped X-ray reflective surface | 01-10-2013 |
20130039476 | X-RAY OPTICAL SYSTEM - An X-ray optical system includes a waveguide that includes a core and a cladding and that guides X-rays from an X-ray source, and an optical element that condenses the X-rays from the waveguide. The core has a periodic structure. The critical angle for total internal reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the core and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure. The optical element condenses the X-rays from the waveguide at least in the direction parallel to the interface between the core and the cladding. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039477 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - To provide an X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; has a waveguide mode with its phase controlled; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced, an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the core has a one-dimensional periodic structure containing multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index; the multiple materials include one of an organic material, a gas, and a vacuum, and an inorganic material; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle resulting from a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure, is realized. | 02-14-2013 |
20130058461 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide showing a small propagation loss and having a waveguide mode with its phase controlled is provided. The X-ray waveguide including: a core for guiding an X-ray in a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the X-ray is confined in the core by total reflection at a interface between the core and the cladding; in the core multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged; and a waveguide mode of the X-ray waveguide is such that the number of antinodes or nodes of an electric field intensity distribution or a magnetic field intensity distribution of the X-ray coincides with the number of periods of the periodic structure in a direction perpendicular to a waveguiding direction of the X-ray in the core. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064352 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, PROCESS OF PRODUCING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND X-RAY GUIDING SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide, for guiding X-rays having a wavelength of 1 pm or more and 100 nm or less, includes: a core and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure composed of a plurality of materials each having a different real part of refractive index in the direction perpendicular to the waveguiding direction. A planarizing layer is disposed between the core and the cladding. The critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the planarizing layer and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure of the core. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070905 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the core has a low electron density portion and a high electron density portion having a higher electron density than an electron density of the low electron density portion; the low electron density portion is provided in the high electron density portion; and the low electron density portion is formed of one of a pore and an organic substance. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077759 | METHOD FOR SPATIALLY MODULATING X-RAY PULSES USING MEMS-BASED X-RAY OPTICS - A method and apparatus are provided for spatially modulating X-rays or X-ray pulses using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based X-ray optics. A torsionally-oscillating MEMS micromirror and a method of leveraging the grazing-angle reflection property are provided to modulate X-ray pulses with a high-degree of controllability. | 03-28-2013 |
20130114795 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a periodic structure in which basic structures made of a plurality of materials having different real parts of refractive indexes are periodically disposed, a cladding formed on an outer side of the core to confine X-rays in the core through total reflection and including at least a portion with a gap between the cladding and the core, and a driving unit which drives at least a portion of the cladding or the core to change a distance of the gap. A critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays in the interface between the cladding and the gap is larger than a Bragg angle corresponding to the periodic structure of the core, and a critical angle for total reflection in an interface between a plurality of ingredients which form the periodic structure of the core is smaller than the Bragg angle. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121474 | X-RAY NEEDLE MODULE FOR LOCAL RADIATION THERAPY - An X-ray needle module for local radiation therapy according to the present invention includes: an X-ray generating part ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130142312 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core configured to guide X-ray therethrough and a cladding. In a section perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction, the core has threefold or more rotational symmetry and has a periodic structure made of plural substances each having a different value of a real part of refractive-index, and a critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle of the X-ray for the periodic structure of the core. A waveguide mode having a two-dimensionally spatial coherence over a wide cross-section of the core and exhibiting a small propagation loss is realized. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156162 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core to guide X-rays. The core includes a periodic structure of plural substances having different values of a refractive-index real part in a direction perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction. A Bragg angle determined depending on a wavelength of an X-ray and periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding. The Bragg angle is larger than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the plural substances constituting the periodic structure. The core has, in the X-ray guiding direction, two or more regions differing in periodic number of the periodic structure constituting the core with a core width in a direction of period being different between the two or more regions corresponding to change of the periodic number. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163727 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - A X-ray waveguide includes a core for guiding X-rays having a wavelength band in which the real part of refractive index of material is smaller than 1 and a cladding for confining the X-rays in the core. The core has a one-dimensional periodic structure in which a plurality of layers respectively formed of inorganic materials having different real parts of refractive index are periodically laminated. The core and the cladding are configured so that a critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle due to a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. A critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between layers in the one-dimensional periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle due to the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177138 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core to guide X-rays in a wavelength band where the real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less, and a cladding to confine the X-rays to the core, in which the core includes a periodic structure having basic structures that contain materials having different real parts of refractive indices, the basic structures being periodically arranged, a low electron density layer is arranged between the core and the cladding and has a lower electron density than that of a material having the highest electron density of all the materials constituting the core, and the critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the boundary between the cladding and the low electron density layer is larger than the Bragg angle attributed to the periodicity of the basic structures in the periodic structure of the core. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182827 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a curved portion and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure made of different substances periodically arrayed perpendicular to a guiding direction. A critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at a core-cladding interface is larger than a Bragg angle of the periodic structure. A critical angle for the total reflection of the X-ray at a substance interface in the periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle. When s is a core width in a direction perpendicular to the guiding direction and parallel to a curvature radius of the curved portion, n | 07-18-2013 |
20130182828 | X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus comprises an X-ray source; a housing configured to accommodate the X-ray source; and a plurality of supporting legs each connected to the housing via a movable connecting portion and configured to support the housing, wherein each of the supporting legs can change, by the movable connecting portion, a support angle made by a ground plane and the supporting leg. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188778 | HYBRID X-RAY OPTIC APPARATUS AND METHODS - According to some aspects, a hybrid optic is provided. The hybrid optic comprises a capillary optic for receiving x-rays from an x-ray source at an entrance portion of the capillary optic and for providing x-rays at an exit portion of the capillary optic, and a grazing incidence multi-shell optic (GIMSO) coupled, at an entrance portion of the GIMSO, to the exit portion of the capillary optic to receive x-rays emerging from the exit portion of the capillary optic, the GIMSO including an exit portion for providing x-rays. | 07-25-2013 |
20130202091 | Contour Collimator and Adaptive Filter with Electroactive Polymer Elements and Associated Method - A contour collimator and an adaptive filter as well as an associated method for adjusting a contour of a ray path of x-ray radiation are provided. The contour collimator and the adaptive filter include fluid impermeable for x-ray radiation and a number of electroactive polymer elements actively connected to the fluid. On application of an electrical voltage to the electroactive polymer elements, an aperture forming the contour in the fluid is formed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202092 | Contour Collimator and Adaptive Filter Having a Magnetic Fluid Absorbing X-Ray Radiation and Associated Method - A contour collimator or an adaptive filter for adjusting a contour of a ray path of x-ray radiation is provided. The apparatus includes a magnetic fluid that is impermeable to x-ray radiation and a number of switchable magnet elements, by which an aperture forming the contour may be formed in the magnetic fluid. | 08-08-2013 |
20130235980 | X-RAY OPTICAL APPARATUS - The present invention provides an X-ray optical apparatus including an X-ray reflective structure in which at least three reflective substrates are arranged with an interval and an X-ray which is incident into a plurality of X-ray passages whose both sides are put between the reflective substrates is reflected from the reflective substrate at both sides of the X-ray passage to be parallelized and emitted from the X-ray passage. When an edge of the X-ray reflective structure is an inlet of the X-ray and the other edge is an outlet of the X-ray, a pitch of the reflective substrates at the outlet is larger than a pitch at the inlet. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently parallelize the incident X-ray to be emitted with a simple structure. | 09-12-2013 |
20130287178 | X-RAY BEAM CONDITIONING - An X-ray optical device includes a crystal containing a channel, which passes through the crystal and has multiple internal faces. A mount is configured to hold the crystal in a fixed location relative to a source of an X-ray beam and to shift the crystal automatically between two predefined dispositions: a first disposition in which the X-ray beam passes through the channel while diffracting from one or more of the internal faces, and a second disposition in which the X-ray beam passes through the channel without diffraction by the crystal. | 10-31-2013 |
20130301806 | COMPOSITE CRYSTAL ARRAY FOR PIXELATED GAMMA CAMERA AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF - A composite crystal array for a pixelated gamma camera and a method of making thereof, which are adapted to a photoelectric matrix that consists of position sensitive photomultiplier elements, in which the photoelectric matrix is divided into sensible and non-sensible areas with a geometric distribution, so as to set a ratio of a segmented region; a configuration detail of a partial optical splitting crystal array and a configuration detail of a whole optical splitting crystal array are set according to the ratio of the segmented region; and the partial optical splitting crystal array and the whole optical splitting crystal array are made according to the two configuration details, and two kinds of crystal arrays are combined to form a whole crystal array for the pixelated cameras according to the segmented region, so that the effective area of the pixelated camera is kept continuous and the resolution thereof is kept uniform. | 11-14-2013 |
20140056414 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide having a curved structure formed of a core and two claddings that sandwich the core and are mutually opposed, wherein when a y-axis is defined using as an origin a center of a circle, which defines a curvature radius of an interface a between a cladding A present on an inner circumference side of the curved structure of the two claddings, and the core, perpendicular to a tangent at an arbitrary point S and in a direction from the origin toward the interface b, a refractive index real part of the core in the interface a at a y | 02-27-2014 |
20140112452 | Double-multilayer Monochromator - The present invention relates to a double-multilayer monochromator. The monochromator comprises a base, a housing moveably mounted on the base and having in one side thereof at least one inlet window for the inlet of a X-ray beam and in another side thereof an outlet window for the outlet a monochromatized X-ray beam, support means mounted in the housing to support opposed mirror pairs, wherein each of the mirrors has a coated surface, each of said coated mirror surfaces being coated with a multilayer coating in alternating layers of a scatterer material (A) having a thickness d | 04-24-2014 |
20140126703 | Stacked Zone Plates for Pitch Frequency Multiplication - A compound x-ray lens and method of fabricating these lenses are disclosed. These compound lenses use multiple zone plate stacking to achieve a pitch frequency increase for the resulting combined zone plate. The compound equivalent zone plate includes a first zone plate having an initial pitch frequency stacked onto a second zone plate to form an equivalent compound zone plate. The equivalent zone plate has a pitch frequency that is at least twice the initial pitch frequency. Also, in one example, the equivalent zone plate has a mark-to-space ratio of 1:1. | 05-08-2014 |
20140185779 | STRUCTURE AND RESIN STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD, STRUCTURE, AND X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING STRUCTURE - A resin structure manufacturing method includes filling a mold with a resin, fixing a first supporting substrate onto the resin filled in the mold, hardening the resin filled in the mold, fixing a second supporting substrate onto the first supporting substrate, demolding the resin from the mold using the second supporting substrate, and separating the first supporting substrate and the second supporting substrate after demolding. | 07-03-2014 |
20140241509 | MESOPOROUS STRUCTURED MATERIAL, X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING MESOPOROUS STRUCTURED MATERIAL - The invention provides a mesoporous structured material having a stacked structure, including a mesoporous structured material and a planarization layer existing on a surface of the mesoporous structured material.
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20140270090 | X-Ray Diffraction Apparatus And Method - An x-ray diffraction apparatus is provided having an x-ray diffraction head, a frame for supporting the x-ray diffraction head, and a pair of drive mechanisms of the frame configured to generate pivotal movement of the x-ray diffraction head about first and second orthogonal axes. The frame is configured such that operation of one of the drive mechanisms to rotate the x-ray diffraction head about the first axis generates rotation of both of the drive mechanisms about the first axis. | 09-18-2014 |
20140294157 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND HIGHLY ALIGNED MONOCHROMATING X-RAY OPTICS FOR X-RAY ANALYSIS ENGINES AND ANALYZERS - A support structure having multiple highly aligned curved x-ray optics, the support structure having multiple internal partially or fully concentric surfaces upon which said optics are mounted, thereby aligning said optics along a central optical axis thereof and therefore to a source, sample, and/or detector in combination with which the support structure is useable. The surfaces may be nested around the central optical axis; and the support structure may divided longitudinally into sections around the central optical axis by walls. At least one of the x-ray optics comprises a curved diffracting optic, for receiving a diverging x-ray beam and focusing the beam to a focal area, in one embodiment a focusing monochromating optic. In an improved embodiment, an optic comprises a single layer, plastically deformed, LiF optic. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294158 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - Provided is an X-ray waveguide including a core and two clads opposing to each other so as to sandwich the core, wherein one of the interfaces between the clad and the core has a periodic relief structure in a direction perpendicular to an opposing direction of the two clads and perpendicular to a guiding direction of an X-ray in the X-ray waveguide. | 10-02-2014 |
20140334607 | DIFFRACTION LEVERAGED MODULATION OF X-RAY PULSES USING MEMS-BASED X-RAY OPTICS - A method and apparatus are provided for implementing Bragg-diffraction leveraged modulation of X-ray pulses using MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMS) based diffractive optics. An oscillating crystalline MEMS device generates a controllable time-window for diffraction of the incident X-ray radiation. The Bragg-diffraction leveraged modulation of X-ray pulses includes isolating a particular pulse, spatially separating individual pulses, and spreading a single pulse from an X-ray pulse-train. | 11-13-2014 |
20140376699 | X RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide system capable of forming X-rays having spatial coherence of a large space region has an X-ray collecting optical element which collects incident X-rays; and an X-ray waveguide containing a core and claddings and wave-guiding a collected X-ray collected by the X-ray collecting optical element, in which the core of the X-ray waveguide is a periodic structure body in which a plurality of basic structures containing substances different in the refractive-index real part are periodically disposed, the total reflection critical angle of the collected X-ray at the interface of the core and the cladding is equal to or larger than the Bragg angle corresponding to the period of the core, and the collection angle of the collected X-ray entering the X-ray waveguide is as large as or larger than the double of the Bragg angle. | 12-25-2014 |
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