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Fabrication of Spatially Confined Complex Oxides
Published on: July 1, 2013
Using multiple x-ray emission images of inertially confined implosions to identify spatial variations and estimate
Laura Robin Benedetti1, D K Bradley1, S F Khan1
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94550, USA.
Abstract:
We describe two methods to analyze multiple x-ray images of a small, self-emitting object, and we apply these methods to the stagnating hotspots in inertial confinement fusion experiments. The first method, the common integrated profile, can be used to assess and quantify spatial variations in opacity. It is both a simple assessment of consistency and a sophisticated measurement of variations in a region that is otherwise difficult to observe. Second, we present a method to estimate volumes of highly asymmetric objects using multiple images of x-ray emission. The method is based on image intensities and does not require any explicit assumption of symmetry.
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