|
The
Institute for Roentgen Optics -
pioneer and world leader in developing capillary
and polycapillary
x-ray optics and neutron optics (Kumakhov optics)
Main stream:
X-ray
devices based on
polycapillary x-ray optics for structural and elemental analysis:
microfocus X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for elemental
analysis, x-ray diffractometer for structural and stress analysis,
X-ray reflectometer for thin films analysis, X-ray projection
microscope, X-ray tubes, microfocus x-ray tubes, laboratory synchrotron
as x-ray irradiator, capillary micropump for fuel cell and injections in medicine,
X-ray and neutron
lenses.
Medical department
presented by x -ray
therapy device and
medical gamma - camera.
The
Institute for Roentgen Optics was founded on June 28, 1991 by the order # 689-p of the
Counsel of Ministers of the RSFSR on the basis of the Kurchatov
Institute of Atomic Power Research laboratory headed by professor Muradin A.Kumakhov., It was there that the idea of an X-ray
radiation control, using multiple surface reflection inside
capillaries, emerged and was realized for the first time. There they
also produced first mono-capillary roentgen/neutron lenses (the
Russian patent of professor Muradin A.Kumakhov, # 1322888, 1984). At
the same time (late 80th – early 90th of the 20th century) fields of
application for such optics were proposed.
For the
last ten years the
x-ray polycapillary
(capillary)
optics has
been developing mainly in Institute for Roentgen (X-ray) Optics. It made the IRO the
biggest international centre of development and production of the
Roentgen X-ray capillary optics and its use in devices of medical and
industrial application. Five
generations of polycapillary optics were developed in this
time frame. The results are presented in
articles and patents.
|
