Patent ID: 7292676
Filing Date: 2007-11-06
Classification: G01N,G21K,H05G

Abstract:
1. A radiograph system comprising an anode plate; a cathode plate; a power source coupled to said anode plate and said cathode plate; at least two wires coupled between said anode plate and said cathode plate providing a configuration to form an X-pinch having a photon source size of less than five microns at energies above 2.5 keV; wherein material at said configuration forming the X-pinch vaporizes upon application of a suitable current to said wires forming a dense hot plasma and emitting a single x-ray pulse with sufficient photons having energies in the range of from about 2.5 keV to about 20 keV; one or more objects in optical communication with the photon source, and one or more x-ray detectors in optical communication with a corresponding object from the one or more objects, whereby each object is positioned between a corresponding x-ray detector from the one or more x-ray detectors and the photon source.