{"id":586,"date":"2020-04-12T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/?page_id=586"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:40:06","slug":"neutron-imager","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/funding\/neutron-imager\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of a coded\u2013aperture neutron imager for nuclear decommissioning applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding: Sellafield Ltd, \u00a323k, 2015-2019<\/p>\n<p>Investigators: Professor C J Taylor (PI), Dr K Gamage (Glasgow University)<\/p>\n<p>Coded-aperture imaging is a well-established and widely applied concept of optics. For the case of radiation detection, there has been a particular focus on the development of X-ray and gamma-ray imaging systems. In recent years, however, coded-aperture based neutron imaging has also seen increased attention. The main advantage of coded-aperture imaging is the increased signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), when compared to single opening pinhole devices. This research project considers relatively small scale coded apertures. When complemented by a suitably sized sensitive organic detector, such a system could be packaged into a portable device for nuclear decommissioning applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding: Sellafield Ltd, \u00a323k, 2015-2019 Investigators: Professor C J Taylor (PI), Dr K Gamage (Glasgow University) Coded-aperture imaging is a well-established and widely applied concept of optics. For the case of radiation detection, there has been a particular focus on the development of X-ray and gamma-ray imaging systems. In recent years, however, coded-aperture based neutron &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/funding\/neutron-imager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Development of a coded\u2013aperture neutron imager for nuclear decommissioning applications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":866,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions\/703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}