Three-Dimensional Nondestructive Isotope-Selective Tomographic Imaging of 208Pb Distribution via Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence
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Abstract
Combining the nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) transmission method with computed tomography (CT) can be a novel method for imaging the isotope distributions, which is indispensable in nuclear engineering. We performed an experiment to reconstruct a three-dimensional NRF-CT image with isotope selectivity of enriched lead isotope rods (208Pb) together with a set of different rods, including another enriched isotope (206Pb), iron, and aluminum rods, inserted into a cylindrical aluminum holder. Using a laser Compton scattering (LCS) gamma ray beam with a 5.528 MeV maximum energy, 2 mm beam size, and 10 photon·s−1·eV−1 flux density, which is available at the BL1U beamline in the ultraviolet synchrotron orbital radiation-III (UVSOR-III) synchrotron radiation facility at the Institute of Molecular Science at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan, and we excited the Jπ = 1− NRF level at 5.512 MeV in 208Pb. An isotope-selective three-dimensional NRF-CT image of the 208Pb isotope distribution was experimentally obtained for the first time with a pixel resolution of 4 mm in the horizontal plane.
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OpenAlex topics: Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications · Nuclear Physics and Applications · Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
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Affiliations
Institute of Advanced Energy (IAE), Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt
Tokai Quantum Beam Science Center, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 2-4, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
UVSOR-III Synchrotron Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
Funding
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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