Design and analysis of a hybrid X-ray transmission and diffraction system

Joel A. Greenberg; Josh Carpenter; David Coccarelli; Yijun Ding; Shu Yang; Emily Fang; Kris Brumbaugh; Christopher Gregory; Amit Ashok; Anuj J. Kapadia; Michael E. Gehm

doi:10.1117/12.2585640

Design and analysis of a hybrid X-ray transmission and diffraction system

Joel A. Greenberg
, Josh Carpenter
, David Coccarelli
, Yijun Ding
, Shu Yang
, Emily Fang
, Kris Brumbaugh
, Christopher Gregory
, Amit Ashok
, Anuj J. Kapadia
, Michael E. Gehm

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Abstract

Aviation security, mail inspection, medical diagnostics and many other industries all face the same challenge: to accurately identify the presence of a target material concealed within a cluttered surrounding environment. X-ray systems that combine transmission and diffraction measurements promise excellent detection performance with low false alarm rates; however, conventional approaches to combining these measurements typically under-utilize the available information and result in higher overall system resource costs. Here, we consider a fully integrated approach to hybrid X-ray transmission and diffraction systems and discuss simulation- and experimental-based investigations of the design and performance (both imaging and detection) of such systems. Based on this analysis, we describe a hybrid system capable of scanning boxes and/or luggage and report its ability to distinguish materials of interest to aviation security and pharmaceutical inspection.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) VI
Editors	Amit Ashok, Joel A. Greenberg, Michael E. Gehm
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510643130
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2585640
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) VI 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Apr 12 2021 → Apr 16 2021

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11738
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) VI 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	04/12/21 → 04/16/21

Funding

This research was funded by the contract 70RSAT18CB0000044.

Keywords

Computed tomography
Simulation
Synthetic data
X-ray diffraction
X-ray imaging

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Greenberg, J. A., Carpenter, J., Coccarelli, D., Ding, Y., Yang, S., Fang, E., Brumbaugh, K., Gregory, C., Ashok, A., Kapadia, A. J., & Gehm, M. E. (2021). Design and analysis of a hybrid X-ray transmission and diffraction system. In A. Ashok, J. A. Greenberg, & M. E. Gehm (Eds.), Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) VI Article 1173807 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11738). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2585640

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Design and analysis of a hybrid X-ray transmission and diffraction system. / Greenberg, Joel A.; Carpenter, Josh; Coccarelli, David et al.
Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) VI. ed. / Amit Ashok; Joel A. Greenberg; Michael E. Gehm. SPIE, 2021. 1173807 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11738).

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