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I've never heard of Muon tomography till today but damn it's really cool, and I'm amazed it's both been around for so long (50s) and has such wide ranging appli
by neom 4y ago
I've never heard of Muon tomography till today but damn it's really cool, and I'm amazed it's both been around for so long (50s) and has such wide ranging applications:
Muon tomography or muography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate three-dimensional images of volumes using information contained in the Coulomb scattering of the muons. Since muons are much more deeply penetrating than X-rays, muon tomography can be used to image through much thicker material than x-ray based tomography such as CT scanning. The muon flux at the Earth's surface is such that a single muon passes through an area the size of a human hand per second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography
- n3150n 4y agoI only recently heard about it the first time as well, but used to reconstruct a 3D image of the inside of a nuclear reactor. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-muon-detectors-remotely-3d-image.html https://phys.org/news/2023-02-muon-detectors-remotely-3d-ima...
- possiblelion 4y agoYou might want to check out GScan - https://gscan.eu/ https://gscan.eu/ who are commercialising muon tomography for wider uses. Be that for tax&customs, border patrol or analysing building constructions.
- dghughes 4y agoI've seen that. They (Border/Customs) scan shipping containers looking for any weird density issues that are not normal.
- timbit42 4y agoThey used muon tomography on Oak Island.