High speed, small footprint x-ray tomography inspection systems, devices, and methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8971484
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13683633

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The present subject matter relates to inspection systems, devices and methods for x-ray inspection of objects. A conveyor can move an object to be inspected through an inspection zone along a direction of travel, one or more multibeam x-ray source arrays can provide multiple collimated x-ray beams through the inspection zone along a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel, and one or more x-ray detector arrays can detect x-ray beams passing through the inspection zone from the x-ray source array. X-ray signals detected by the x-ray detector array can be recorded to form multiple x-ray projection images of the object, and the multiple x-ray projection images can be processed into three-dimensional tomographic images of the object.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL136 E ROSEMARY STREET SUITE 100 CHAPEL HILL NC 27514

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Beckmann, Moritz Cary, US 4 92
Cheng, Yuan Durham, US 119 2620
Lu, Jianping Chapel Hill, US 47 1547
Sprenger, Frank Cary, US 9 128
Spronk, Derrek Raleigh, US 1 41
Zarur, George Gainesville, US 1 41
Zhou, Otto Z Chapel Hill, US 55 2576

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