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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120217386 | ORGANIC-SCINTILLATOR COMPTON GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE - Apparatus and methods for imaging sources of gamma rays with a large area, comparatively low-cost Compton telescope ( | 08-30-2012 |
20120037812 | NEUTRON FLUORESCENCE WITH SYNCRHONIZED GAMMA DETECTOR - Method and apparatus for minimizing signal noise ( | 02-16-2012 |
20110272590 | REMOTE DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES - Apparatus and methods for effectively detecting and locating explosive substances within remote targets, including improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The detection apparatus includes a neutron beam generator, a pixilated gamma ray detector, data collection modules and sensors, and a detection processing module. The neutron beam generator includes a fast neutron source, a neutron moderator to slow some or all of the fast neutrons to thermal energies, a partially enclosing neutron shield, and a rotatable neutron shield surrounding the generated neutrons. The neutron shield has an aperture to form a neutron beam directed at a remote target. If the remote target contains explosive substances, gamma rays radiate isotropically from the remote target when it is bombarded by the neutrons. A portion of these gamma rays are intercepted and detected by a plurality of discrete gamma sensing elements contained in the gamma ray detector, which is spaced apart from the neutron source. The detection processing module determines whether the remote target contains explosive substances and further locates the target by processing the collected data from the gamma ray detector, status information collected from the neutron source, and the position sensor(s) associated with the neutron shield. | 11-10-2011 |
20110240837 | NEUTRON BEAM FORMING USING MOMENTUM TRANSFER - Apparatus and methods for forming thermal, epithermal, and/or cold neutrons into a beam using momentum transfer. The apparatus includes a source of thermal, epithermal, or cold neutrons, a momentum transfer mechanism containing a collection of suitable atoms that collide elastically with the neutrons, and an apparatus for moving the momentum transfer medium in a preferred direction. The embodiments include locating the neutron source within the test section of a wind tunnel filled with a gas consisting of appropriate atoms, either supersonic, transonic, or subsonic, locating the neutron source in the midst of multiple rotors constructed of appropriate atoms, and locating the neutron source inside a tube constructed of appropriate atoms, where the tube is excited by a mechanical transducer to a bulk acoustic wave, while the neutron source is optionally switched off and on to cause neutrons to enter the tube walls only when the tube walls are moving in the preferred direction. | 10-06-2011 |
20110228903 | BACKGROUND SIGNAL REDUCTION IN NEUTRON FLUORESCENCE APPLICATIONS USING AGILE NEUTRON BEAM FLUX - Apparatus and methods for operating a neutron gamma fluorescence based system by modulating the interrogating neutron flux (φ | 09-22-2011 |