X-ray Cinematography for Explosive Events

Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) proposes to develop an affordable scalable, single anode, multiple pulse flash X-ray source that can be used to make high resolution X-ray movies of explosive and high-speed tests. The new source eliminates parallax, creates images of closely-timed x-ray pulses, and capitalizes on recent advances in very high speed cameras to provide many frames of high resolution images. DTI applies innovative solid-state pulsed power techniques to deliver many rapid and extremely short-duration high voltage pulses of very high peak power. Solid-state devices provide great pulse flexibility and produce high pulse-repeatability and reliability and, in turn, provide the electron beam performance required for the X-ray source. The unique combination of advanced source generation and imaging capabilities in the prototype system provides an x-ray cinematography solution to increase the information quality and quantity of explosive events and high-speed dynamic processes and reduces the overall cost of explosives system development.