The X-ray Mega-Volt X-Ray Digital Imaging Inspection System

The X-ray Imaging Module (XIM) is a compact, efficient, inexpensive imager component that can be ganged with other XIMs to produce very high spatial resolution seamless images over very large areas, over 2 meters in a single dimension, if necessary. XIM provides fast, deep-dynamic range, low-noise calibrated digital readouts at a user-selectable/motion-coordinated rate, enabling virtually all reconstructive imaging applications, such as CT, TDI, and laminography. In phase I, we built and tested a single prototype XIM unit, and we proved a stitching approach that allows the construction of a single seamless very large image from multiple, smaller, slightly overlapping images. In phase II, Skiametrics will design and build a complete 4-XIM module, provide an erector-set multi-configuration camera unit, allowing very large areas, e.g., 12 x 48 inches or 20 x 24 inches, to be imaged at high spatial resolution. The multi-XIM unit will be delivered and assembled at the Picatinny 2 MeV x-ray facility. Skiametrics will test, calibrate, and acquire quantitative x-ray images, and provide complete hardware, software and procedures for at least one reconstructive imaging application, e.g., CT. We expect the resulting cone-beam CT image set to have the highest resolution and lowest noise ever seen at MeV energies.