• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The XTRA Option at the NEUTRA Facility—More Than 10 Years of Bi-Modal Neutron and X-ray Imaging at PSI
  • Contributor: Lehmann, Eberhard H.; Mannes, David; Kaestner, Anders P.; Hovind, Jan; Trtik, Pavel; Strobl, Markus
  • Published: MDPI AG, 2021
  • Published in: Applied Sciences, 11 (2021) 9, Seite 3825
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.3390/app11093825
  • ISSN: 2076-3417
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  • Description: Just after the start into the new millennium the concept for combined neutron and X-ray imaging was introduced by extending the standard configuration of the thermal neutron imaging NEUTRA instrument with a complementary 320 kV X-ray tube setup. Using essentially the same detector configuration for both neutron and X-ray imaging enables a pixel-wise (in radiography) and a voxel-wise (in tomography) correlation and combination of attenuation data. The optimal use and analyses of such complementary data sets depend on the specific investigation and research question and range from a combinatory interpretation of separately analyzed images to full data fusion approaches. Here, several examples from more than a decade of bimodal neutron and X-ray imaging at NEUTRA at PSI shall be reviewed.
  • Access State: Open Access