Patent ID: 9459218
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method of obtaining x-ray radiation interaction data from an object comprising the steps of: providing an x-ray radiation source and an x-ray radiation detector system spaced therefrom to define a scanning zone therebetween; locating a test object in the scanning zone; irradiating with x-ray radiation from the source; and collecting at the detector system intensity data for x-ray 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: calculating a Compound Proton Number Set comprising plural order powers of weighted atomic number from each measured attenuation the Compound Proton Number Set comprising solutions to the plural set of energy dependent polynomial equations; and