Apparatus and method for the imaging of the internal structure of a three-dimensional solid and/or liquid object
First Claim
1. A process for the multiple-layer, layer-by-layer reconstruction of the internal structure of a solid, liquid or solid-liquid object comprising:
- exciting said object withultrasonic waves during a time interval where Δ
T determines thickness of an i-th object layer (Li) as the time taken for said waves to pass through said layer, at an i-th step of said process, depending recursively on identical steps numbered 1, 2, . . . i-1 having been performed previously, such that a coherent, monochromatic wave-pulse pair (Pi, Pi '"'"') generated in standard ultrasonic generating means outside said object pass simultaneously through and define said i-th object layer during said time interval and generate two additional pulses in said i-th layer;
one (Ri) transmitting information about absorptivity in said i-th layer, and the second (Ti) transmitting information about propagation velocity or refractivity in said i-th layer,said wave and pulse (Pi Pi '"'"') arriving at said i-th object layer after the pulse (Pi) has been conjugated in a conjugator operated as a reversal medium which returns the conjugate of an incident wave,and in which said additional two pulses activate an image medium by having particles responsive to the activation and further responsive to the additional two pulses to constitute a recording means in the image medium wherein said absorptivity and refractivity information are used to reconstruct the acoustic impedance three dimensional analog of the object,said image medium, reversal medium, generating means and object being sonically coupled to transmit and transfer said ultrasonic waves and pulses between said media, generating means and object, said image media being coupled to a magnet coil and a microwave source with means for energizing said coil and source to activate said media for recording.
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Abstract
A system employing ultrasound for the reconstruction of the absorptivity and refractivity properties of ultrasonic radiation internal to a solid, liquid or partly solid and liquid object, air vacuoles being excluded, in the vase that this radiation is highly scattered (reflected or refracted). The reconstruction consists of a three-dimensional simulation of these acoustic properties in a powder mixture which allows access to absorptivity and refractivity information without disturbance either to itself or to the object which it simulates. The reconstruction method is a multi-stage process in which the absorptivity and refractivity of the object are sampled layer-by-layer and recorded in mirror-image layers in the reconstruction. At each stage of the process, the previously constructed image layers are used as "corrective optics" to decode the highly distorted information from the object into the exact wave front geometry and wave form at the given layer that this wave had in the corresponding, mirror-image layer in the object, except for being inverted with respect to one spatial dimension as a mirror image. The necessary sonic data processing is done with a powder mixture, each particle of which is a microscopic mechanism capable of amplifying, recording, erasing and recalling the acoustic impedance information by means of mechanical flexions and other movements.
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1. A process for the multiple-layer, layer-by-layer reconstruction of the internal structure of a solid, liquid or solid-liquid object comprising:
- exciting said object with
ultrasonic waves during a time interval where Δ
T determines thickness of an i-th object layer (Li) as the time taken for said waves to pass through said layer, at an i-th step of said process, depending recursively on identical steps numbered 1, 2, . . . i-1 having been performed previously, such that a coherent, monochromatic wave-pulse pair (Pi, Pi '"'"') generated in standard ultrasonic generating means outside said object pass simultaneously through and define said i-th object layer during said time interval and generate two additional pulses in said i-th layer;
one (Ri) transmitting information about absorptivity in said i-th layer, and the second (Ti) transmitting information about propagation velocity or refractivity in said i-th layer,said wave and pulse (Pi Pi '"'"') arriving at said i-th object layer after the pulse (Pi) has been conjugated in a conjugator operated as a reversal medium which returns the conjugate of an incident wave, and in which said additional two pulses activate an image medium by having particles responsive to the activation and further responsive to the additional two pulses to constitute a recording means in the image medium wherein said absorptivity and refractivity information are used to reconstruct the acoustic impedance three dimensional analog of the object, said image medium, reversal medium, generating means and object being sonically coupled to transmit and transfer said ultrasonic waves and pulses between said media, generating means and object, said image media being coupled to a magnet coil and a microwave source with means for energizing said coil and source to activate said media for recording. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
- exciting said object with
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