Identification of an Unknown Substance by the Methods of Multi-Energy Pulse X-ray Tomography

Abstract

The inverse problem for the non-stationary radiative transfer equation is considered, which consists in finding the attenuation coefficient according to the pulsed multi-energy X-ray exposure. For a short duration of the probing pulse, the asymptotic solution of the inverse problem is found. The problem of identifying an unknown substance by attenuation coefficients approximately found on a finite set of energy values is formulated. Algorithms for solving identification problems are proposed. The results of the numerical simulation are presented for a wide range of substances of interest in medical computed tomography.

Keywords

• pulsed tomography
• non-stationary radiative transfer equation
• inverse problems
• attenuation coefficient
• substance identification
• multi-energy X-ray imaging