Radiation imaging device capable of matter-element information acquisition and image based selection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9784697-B2
Application number	US-201214424682-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2012
Priority date	Aug 30, 2012
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A radiation imaging device capable of matter-element information acquisition and image based selection comprises: a radiation source generating radiation; at least one scattering device receiving radiation which includes radiation transmitting a subject and scattered radiation and scattering the received radiation; and an imaging device receiving the radiation which includes the radiation transmitting the subject and the scattered radiation to measure energy and positional information so as to calculate a two-dimensional image.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A radiation imaging device capable of matter-element information acquisition and image based selection, comprising:
a radiation source configured to generate radiation and make the radiation be incident on a subject and separate the incident radiation into first transmitted radiation and first scattered radiation;
a first scattering device configured to separate the first transmitted radiation and the first scattered radiation incident thereon into second transmitted radiations and second scattered radiations, and measure lost energy and positional information of the radiation;
a second scattering device configured to separate the second transmitted radiations and the second scattered radiations incident thereon into third transmitted radiations and third scattered radiations, and measure the lost energy and the positional information of the radiation; and
an imaging device configured to calculate a two-dimensional image by using the third transmitted radiations incident thereon, the lost energy and the positional information of the radiation, and configured to calculate a three-dimensional image and element information of the subject by using the lost energy or the positional information which are measured by the first scattering device, the second scattering device, and the imaging device.

2. The radiation imaging device of claim 1 , wherein the three-dimensional image and the element information are calculated by using a single-photon three-dimensional tracking technique based on particulate property of the radiation.

3. The radiation imaging device of claim 1 , wherein the radiation source generates at least one radiation selected from the group consisting of gamma rays, X-rays, electron rays, proton beam, heavy ion beam, and neutron rays.

4. The radiation imaging device of claim 1 , wherein the imaging device is formed in a pixel type to acquire the two-dimensional image.

5. A radiation imaging method capable of matter-element information acquisition and image based selection, comprising:
an incident step of making radiation generated from a radiation source be incident on a subject and separating the incident radiation into first transmitted radiation and first scattered radiation;
a first scattering step of making the first transmitted radiation and the first scattered radiation be incident on a first scattering device and separating the first transmitted radiation the first scattered radiation into second transmitted radiations and second scattered radiations, and measuring, by the first scattering device, lost energy and positional information of the radiation;
a second scattering step of making the second transmitted radiations and the second scattered radiations be incident on a second scattering device and separating the second transmitted radiations and the second scattered radiations into third transmitted radiations and third scattered radiations, and measuring, by the second scattering device, the lost energy and the positional information of the radiation;
a two-dimensional image acquiring step of making the third transmitted radiations and the third scattered radiations be incident on an imaging device to measure, by the imaging device, the lost energy and the positional information of the radiation so as to calculate a two-dimensional image; and
a three-dimensional image acquiring step of calculating, by the imaging device, a three-dimensional image and element information of the subject by using the lost energy or the positional information, which are measured by the first scattering device, the second scattering device, and the imaging device.

6. The radiation imaging method of claim 5 , wherein the three-dimensional image acquiring step comprises calculating the three-dimensional image and the element information using a single-photon three-dimensional tracking technique based on particulate property of the radiation.

Assignees

• Korea Atomic Energy Res

Inventors

• Ha Jang Ho
• Kim Young Soo
• Kim Han Soo
• Yeo Sun Mog

Classifications

• G01N23/08

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01N23/202

  using neutrons · CPC title

• G01N23/083

  the radiation being X-rays · CPC title

• G01N23/04 Primary

  and forming images of the material · CPC title

• G01N23/201 Primary

  by measuring small-angle scattering · CPC title