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Due to the high penetrating power of cosmic ray muons, they can be used to probe very thick and dense objects. As charged particles, they can be tracked by ionization detectors, determining the position and direction of the muons. With…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Jesus J. Valencia , Adam A. Hecht , C. L. Morris , E. Guardincerri , D. Poulson , J. Bacon , J. M. Durham

Muon tomography is a relatively new method of radiography that utilizes muons from cosmic rays and their multiple Coulomb scattering property to distinguish materials. Researchers around the world have been developing various detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-20 Weihe Zeng , Xingyu Pan , Zhi Zeng , Hao Ma , Ming Zeng , Jianping Cheng

Muon tomography 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. Advantages of this technique are the ability of cosmic rays to…

The research focuses on the non-invasive imaging technique using cosmic muon absorption tomography to monitor the internals of archaeological / civil / industrial structures of intermediate size. It integrates experimental measurements and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-01 Piyush Pallav , Purba Bhattacharya , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar

Muon tomography is developing as a promising system to detect high-Z (atomic number) material for ensuring homeland security. In the present work, three kinds of spatial locations of materials which are made of aluminum, iron, lead and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-04 Xiao-Dong Wang , Kai-Xuan Ye , Yu-Lei Li , Wen Luo , Hui-Yin Wu , He-Run Yang , Guo-Xiang Chen , Zhi-Chao Zhu , Xiu-Liang Zhao

The muon tomography technique, based on multiple Coulomb scattering of cosmic ray muons, has been proposed as a tool to detect the presence of high density objects inside closed volumes. In this paper a new and innovative method is…

Muon tomographic visualization techniques try to reconstruct a 3D image as close as possible to the real localization of the objects being probed. Statistical algorithms under test for the reconstruction of muon tomographic images in the…

Muography is an imaging tool based on the attenuation of cosmic muons to observe the density distribution of large objects, such as underground caves or fractured zones. Tomography based on muography measurements -- that is, three…

Muon radiography, also known as muography, is a non-destructive geophysical technique for the study of the internal structure of large objects such as volcanoes. This is possible by constructing an image based on the differential absorption…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-14 R. Calderón-Ardila , A. Almela , M. Gómez-Berisso , A. Sedoski , C. Varela , A. Vesga-Ramírez , H. Asorey

For decades, the application of muon tomography to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) cask imaging has been theoretically evaluated and experimentally verified by many research groups around the world, including Los Alamos National Laboratory in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-01 JungHyun Bae , Rose Montgomery , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Muon imaging is one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for density structure scanning, specially for large objects reaching the kilometre scale. It has already interesting applications in different fields like geophysics or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-14 H. Gómez , D. Gibert , C. Goy , K. Jourde , Y. Karyotakis , S. Katsanevas , J. Marteau , M. Rosas-Carbajal , A. Tonazzo

Ultrasound modulated optical tomography, also called acousto-optics tomography, is a hybrid imaging modality that aims to combine the high contrast of optical waves with the high resolution of ultrasound. We follow the model of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Guillaume Bal , Shari Moskow

We demonstrate that simultaneous reconstruction of scattering and absorption of a mesoscopic system using angularly-resolved measurements of scattered light intensity is possible. Image reconstruction is realized based on the algebraic…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-07 Lucia Florescu , John C. Schotland , Vadim A. Markel

We present an imaging technique particularly suited to the detection of a target embedded in a strongly scattering medium. Classical imaging techniques based on the Born approximation fail in this kind of configuration because of multiply…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-08-21 Alexandre Aubry , Arnaud Derode

The paper[1] presented a novel muon radiography technique which exploits the multiple Coulomb scattering of these particles for nondestructive inspection without the use of artificial radiation. In this paper, a new kind algorithm named…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-15 Liu Cheng-Ming , Wen Qun-Gang , Zhang Zhi-Yong , Huang Guang-Shun

Quality assurance and condition assessment of concrete structures is an important topic world-wide due to the ageing infrastructure and increasing traffic demands. Common topics include, but are not limited to, localisation of rebar or…

The article suggests a new approach what is called a consistency method for the inversion of the spherical Radon transform in 2D with detectors on a line. It is known that there is not an exact inversion formula in 2D. By means of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Rafik Aramyan

Muon tomography (MT), based on atmospheric cosmic rays, is a promising technique suitable for nondestructive imaging of the internal structures of mountains. This method uses the measured flux distribution after attenuation, combined with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-27 Bin Zhang , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

Muon imaging, especially muon scattering tomography (MST), has recently garnered significant attention. MST measures the magnitude of muon scattering angles inside an object, which depends not only on the material properties but also on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-17 Pei Yu , Ziwen Pan , Jiajia Zhai , Yu Xu , Li Deng , Zhengyang He , Zhe Chen , Zechao Kang , Yuhong Yu , Xueheng Zhang , Liangwen Chen , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun

Cosmic ray muon scattering tomography (MST) is an imaging technique that utilizes muon scattering in matter to inspect high-Z materials non-destructively, without requiring an artificial radiation source. This method offers significant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-18 Zheng Liang , Zebo Tang , Xin Li , Baiyu Liu , Cheng Li , Jiacheng He , Kun Jiang , Yonggang Wang , Ye Tian , Yishuang Zhang , Zeyu Wang
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