Method for the radiological investigation of an object

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9459218
APP PUB NO 20140226788A1
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14236414

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A method of identifying the material content of an object comprises: providing a radiation source and a radiation detector; irradiating a test object with radiation from the source; collecting at the detector system intensity data for radiation emergent from the test object; resolving the intensity data spectroscopically between a plural set of energy bands; numerically processing the spectroscopically resolved intensity data via the following steps: considering a material attenuation coefficient as a plural set of energy dependent polynomial equations in atomic number with a set of energy dependent coefficients across the said plural set of energy bands; determining a measured attenuation coefficient at each said energy band; calculating therefrom one or more orders of Compound Proton Number and/or effective mass thickness and/or density and for example a Compound Proton Number Set comprising plural order powers and preferably plural higher order powers of weighted compound atomic number.

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KROMEK LIMITEDNETPARK THOMAS WRIGHT WAY COUNTY DURHAM SEDGEFIELD TS21 3FD

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Cantwell, Ben Durham, GB 10 26
Joyce, David Edward Durham, GB 6 23
Radley, Ian Durham, GB 39 359
Scott, Paul Durham, GB 58 372

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