Calvert, Nick, Betcke, Marta M., Deacon, Alick N., Gleeson, Anthony J., Hill, Clive, McIntosh, Peter A., Mitchell, Lawrence O., Morton, Edward J., Ollier, James, Procter, Mark G., and Speller, Robert D.
By measuring the time of flight of scattered X-ray photons, the point of interaction, assuming a single scatter, can be determined, providing 3-D information about an object under inspection. This paper describes experimental ToF Compton scatter measurements conducted at the versatile electron linear accelerator (VELA), a picosecond pulsewidth electron source situated in Daresbury, U.K. The ToF of scattered X-ray photons was measured using a CeBr3 detector, and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of between 29 and 36 cm was achieved with a 5-cm-thick plastic test object. By implementing a low-energy cutoff, the FWHM was reduced to between 12 and 26 cm. Two test objects placed in series with a 50-cm space between were separable in the data after applying the low energy cutoff. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]