Description of Invention:
The present invention provides a new apparatus and methods for generating a split-beam electromagnetic source for imaging devices and methodologies. With this invention, one part of a split beam is used for generating an image of an object and another part of the split beam is used for timely capturing the generated image. The present invention offers many advantages over earlier technologies. For example: 1) switching with a short duration pulse allows for a fast time gate; 2) utilization of an electromagnetic pulse source to both image and time gate allows for easier and more precise synchronization of the time gate with the imaging source; and 3) optically switching the time gate solves the problem of jitter and inhomogeneous gating.
Inventors:
Ronald W. Waynant (FDA)
Patent Status:
DHHS Reference No. E-156-1998/0 Licensing Status: This technology is no longer available for licensing.
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