Small Angle Scattering in Neutron Imaging: A Review

Strobl, Markus; Harti, Ralph P.; Grünzweig, Christian; Woracek, Robin; Plomp, J.

doi:10.3390/jimaging3040064

Small Angle Scattering in Neutron Imaging

Title

Small Angle Scattering in Neutron Imaging: A Review

Author

Strobl, Markus (University of Copenhagen; Paul Scherrer Institut)
Harti, Ralph P. (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Grünzweig, Christian (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Woracek, Robin (European Spallation Source ESS ERIC)
Plomp, J. (TU Delft RID/TS/Technici Pool)

Date

2017

Abstract

Conventional neutron imaging utilizes the beam attenuation caused by scattering and absorption through the materials constituting an object in order to investigate its macroscopic inner structure. Small angle scattering has basically no impact on such images under the geometrical conditions applied. Nevertheless, in recent years different experimental methods have been developed in neutron imaging, which enable to not only generate contrast based on neutrons scattered to very small angles, but to map and quantify small angle scattering with the spatial resolution of neutron imaging. This enables neutron imaging to access length scales which are not directly resolved in real space and to investigate bulk structures and processes spanning multiple length scales from centimeters to tens of nanometers.

Subject

neutron imaging
neutron scattering
small angle scattering
dark-field imaging

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging3040064

ISSN

2313-433X

Source

Journal of Imaging, 3 (4)

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