Establishment of Imaging Spectroscopy of Nuclear Gamma-Rays based on Geometrical Optics.

Since the discovery of nuclear gamma-rays, its imaging has been limited to pseudo imaging, such as Compton Camera (CC) and coded mask. Pseudo imaging does not keep physical information (intensity, or brightness in Optics) along a ray, and thus is capable of no more than qualitative imaging of bright objects. To attain quantitative imaging, cameras that realize geometrical optics is essential, which would be, for nuclear MeV gammas, only possible via complete reconstruction of the Compton process.

Performance of the micro-PIC gaseous area detector in small-angle X-ray scattering experiments.

The application of a two-dimensional photon-counting detector based on a micro-pixel gas chamber (micro-PIC) to high-resolution small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and its performance, are reported. The micro-PIC is a micro-pattern gaseous detector fabricated by printed circuit board technology. This article describes the performance of the micro-PIC in SAXS experiments at SPring-8.

Development of micro-PIC as a time-resolved X-ray area detector.

The application of a two-dimensional micro-pixel gas chamber (micro-PIC) to X-ray diffraction studies, and its performance, are reported. micro-PIC has a 10 cm x 10 cm detection area, and a fast-readout system for real-time X-ray imaging has been developed. Using the timing of each incoming X-ray measured by micro-PIC, continuous rotation photograph measurements were carried out for a 400 microm-diameter spherical organic crystal of Ylid (C(11)H(10)O(2)S), and then diffraction spots were successfully obtained within 2theta of 49 degrees.