Advanced X-Ray Integrated Sources (AXIS)
Abstract
The Advanced X-Ray Integrated Sources (AXIS) program developed tunable, mono-energetic, spatially coherent X-ray sources with greatly reduced size, weight and power while dramatically increasing their electrical efficiency through application of micro-scale engineering technologies such as MEMS and NEMS. Such X-ray sources enabled new versatile imaging modalities based on phase contrast techniques which are 1000X more sensitive than the conventional absorption contrast imaging. Such imaging modalities enabled design verification of integrated circuits to validate trustworthiness as well as Forward Surgical Team imaging of soft tissues and vascular injuries from blunt trauma without the injection of a contrast enhancing agent. The radiation dose required for imaging will also be reduced. The Applied Research component of this effort focused on applying basic research discoveries to the development of a compact, pulsed X-ray source. Such sources are a necessary component to enable future technologies with high-speed motion tomographic imaging capabilities and the design verification of integrated circuits. This program also included related basic research efforts funded under PE 0601101E, Project ES-01.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- b5925d865f93abf7902f523e68471b23
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