Cosmic-ray tomography for border security

S Barnes, A Georgadze, A Giammanco, M Kiisk… - Instruments, 2023 - mdpi.com
A key task for customs workers is the interception of hazardous, illegal and counterfeit items
in order to protect the health and safety of citizens. However, it is estimated that only a small …

Electron bunchers for industrial RF linear accelerators: theory and design guide

SV Kutsaev - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2021 - Springer
The acceleration of electrons in resonant linear accelerators (linacs) typically consists of
three main stages:(1) emission of the electrons from the cathode and their pre-acceleration …

Linear accelerator for security, industrial and medical applications with rapid beam parameter variation

SV Kutsaev, R Agustsson, A Arodzero, R Berry… - Radiation Physics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
RadiaBeam has developed a novel, flexible linac for electrons and X-rays (FLEX) capable of
energy variation from 2 to 9 MeV within a single RF pulse. This accelerator employs a robust …

Compact X-Band electron linac for radiotherapy and security applications

SV Kutsaev, R Agustsson, A Arodzero, R Berry… - Radiation Physics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
RadiaBeam has developed a 6 MeV accelerator that is compact and light enough to be
placed on a robotic arm or light truck. The main drivers of size and weight in conventional …

Electron accelerators for novel cargo inspection methods

S Kutsaev, R Agustsson, A Arodzero, S Boucher… - Physics Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the main factors limiting the performance of conventional x-ray cargo inspection with
material discrimination (MD) is the interlaced mode of system operation. Such systems use …

Sub-MeV ultra-compact linac for radioactive isotope sources replacement, non-destructive testing, security and medical applications

SV Kutsaev, R Agustsson, A Arodzero… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2019 - Elsevier
RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC has developed an inexpensive, hand-portable 180 keV
electron accelerator to replace 57 Co radionuclide sources in Cascade Header Enrichment …

Event-based x-ray imager with ghosting-free scintillator film

A Zhang, J Pang, H Wu, Q Tan, Z Zheng, L Xu, J Tang… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Dynamic x-ray imagers have undergone extensive study due to their wide-ranging
applications. However, as frame rates and resolutions increase, the accompanying growth in …

X-ray sources for adaptive radiography and computed tomography

SV Kutsaev, R Agustsson, A Arodzero… - AIP Conference …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
X-ray multi-energy adaptive security radiography and computed tomography inspection
techniques have superior performance compared to conventional dual-energy methods …

Trapping Mechanisms and Delayed Recombination Processes in Scintillating Ce-Doped Sol–Gel Silica Fibers

F Cova, F Moretti, C Dujardin, N Chiodini… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The carrier trapping and recombination mechanisms occurring in Ce-doped silica fibers,
produced by a sol–gel technique, are investigated by combining temperature-dependent …

MIXI: mobile intelligent X-ray inspection system

A Arodzero, S Boucher, SV Kutsaev… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel, low-dose Mobile Intelligent X-ray Inspection (MIXI) concept is being developed at
RadiaBeam Technologies. The MIXI concept relies on a linac-based, adaptive, ramped …