Patent ID: 7231017
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: G01N,G21K

Abstract:
1. A backscatter-based X-ray staring imaging apparatus comprising: at least one X-ray generator for irradiating a selected target with a non-scanning beam; an X-ray focusing device positioned for receiving X-ray backscatter from said irradiated target; and a detector positioned relative to said focusing device for forming an image from said received X-ray backscatter; wherein said focusing device comprises a lobster eye structure; wherein said lobster eye structure comprises a decussate arrangement of interleaved wafer-thin flat ribs configured as a unitary three-dimensional meshed array forming a plurality of contiguous channels of continuously diminishing square cross-section, each of said flat ribs being a segment of an annulus having an inner circumference and an outer circumference.