Journal of Imaging (Feb 2018)
Time-of-Flight Neutron Imaging on IMAT@ISIS: A New User Facility for Materials Science
- Winfried Kockelmann,
- Triestino Minniti,
- Daniel E. Pooley,
- Genoveva Burca,
- Ranggi Ramadhan,
- Freddie A. Akeroyd,
- Gareth D. Howells,
- Chris Moreton-Smith,
- David P. Keymer,
- Joe Kelleher,
- Saurabh Kabra,
- Tung Lik Lee,
- Ralf Ziesche,
- Anthony Reid,
- Giuseppe Vitucci,
- Giuseppe Gorini,
- Davide Micieli,
- Raffaele G. Agostino,
- Vincenzo Formoso,
- Francesco Aliotta,
- Rosa Ponterio,
- Sebastiano Trusso,
- Gabriele Salvato,
- Cirino Vasi,
- Francesco Grazzi,
- Kenichi Watanabe,
- Jason W. L. Lee,
- Anton S. Tremsin,
- Jason B. McPhate,
- Daniel Nixon,
- Nick Draper,
- William Halcrow,
- Jim Nightingale
Affiliations
- Winfried Kockelmann
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Triestino Minniti
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Daniel E. Pooley
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Genoveva Burca
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Ranggi Ramadhan
- Centre for Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, University of Coventry, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
- Freddie A. Akeroyd
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Gareth D. Howells
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Chris Moreton-Smith
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- David P. Keymer
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Joe Kelleher
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Saurabh Kabra
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Tung Lik Lee
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Ralf Ziesche
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK
- Anthony Reid
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
- Giuseppe Vitucci
- Department of Physics, University of Milano Bicocca, 20125 Milan, Italy
- Giuseppe Gorini
- Department of Physics, University of Milano Bicocca, 20125 Milan, Italy
- Davide Micieli
- Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (Cosenza), Italy
- Raffaele G. Agostino
- Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (Cosenza), Italy
- Vincenzo Formoso
- Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (Cosenza), Italy
- Francesco Aliotta
- CNR—Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), 98158 Messina, Italy
- Rosa Ponterio
- CNR—Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), 98158 Messina, Italy
- Sebastiano Trusso
- CNR—Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), 98158 Messina, Italy
- Gabriele Salvato
- CNR—Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), 98158 Messina, Italy
- Cirino Vasi
- CNR—Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), 98158 Messina, Italy
- Francesco Grazzi
- CNR—Istituto di Fisica Applicata (IFAC), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Kenichi Watanabe
- Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
- Jason W. L. Lee
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
- Anton S. Tremsin
- Space Science Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Jason B. McPhate
- Space Science Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Daniel Nixon
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Nick Draper
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- William Halcrow
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- Jim Nightingale
- STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, Harwell OX11 0QX, UK
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging4030047
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 3
p. 47
Abstract
The cold neutron imaging and diffraction instrument IMAT at the second target station of the pulsed neutron source ISIS is currently being commissioned and prepared for user operation. IMAT will enable white-beam neutron radiography and tomography. One of the benefits of operating on a pulsed source is to determine the neutron energy via a time of flight measurement, thus enabling energy-selective and energy-dispersive neutron imaging, for maximizing image contrasts between given materials and for mapping structure and microstructure properties. We survey the hardware and software components for data collection and image analysis on IMAT, and provide a step-by-step procedure for operating the instrument for energy-dispersive imaging using a two-phase metal test object as an example.
Keywords
- time-of-flight
- energy-selective imaging
- energy-dispersive imaging
- pulsed neutron source
- Bragg edge imaging
- neutron tomography
- neutron radiography
