Neutron Radiography Measurement of Salt Solution Absorption in Mortar

Discrete tomography in neutron radiography

Discrete tomography (DT) is an imaging technique for reconstructing discrete images from their projections using the knowledge that the object to be reconstructed contains only a few homogeneous materials characterized by known discrete absorption values. One of the main reasons for applying DT is that we will hopefully require relatively few projections. Using discreteness and some a priori in...

Neutron Radiography, Techniques and Applications

After describing the principles of the "in pool" and "dry" installations, techniques used in neutron radiography are reviewed. Use of converter foils with silver halide films for the direct and transfer methods is described. Advantages of the use of nitrocellulose film for radiographying radioactive objacts are discussed. Dynamic imaging is shortly reviewed. Standardization in the field of neut...

Non-destructive Testing: Neutron Radiography

Absorption of 193- and 213-nm laser wavelengths in sodium chloride solution and balanced salt solution.

OBJECTIVE To determine absorption coefficients for sodium chloride solution (saline) and balanced salt solution at the 193- and 213-nm laser wavelengths. METHODS Absorption coefficients were obtained for each of the component species found in balanced salt solution. This was achieved by measuring laser pulse transmission through solutions of varying concentration. The experiments were repeate...

Characterization of a Neutron Collimator for Neutron Radiography

At the ENEA TRIGA research reactor (Casaccia Research Center, Rome), a new neutron collimator has been designed and installed at the neutron tangential channel. This collimator, that is part of a neutron/X-ray facility for NDT analysis, was experimentally characterized and optimized in terms of thermal neutron flux, its spatial/energetic distribution, photon air KERMA and effective beam diamete...