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Russian Geology and Geophysics

2017 year, number 11

THE CONTRAST SCALE OF MINERALS FOR NEUTRON TOMOGRAPHY OF PALEONTOLOGIC AND GEOLOGIC OBJECTS

A.A. Kaloyan1, E.S. Kovalenko1, A.V. Pakhnevich2, K.M. Podurets1
1National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, pl. Akad. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia
2Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 123, Moscow, 117647, Russia
Keywords: Tomography, neutrons, X-rays

Abstract

Neutron tomography is considered as an alternative to X-ray tomography in the study of paleontologic and geologic objects. Based on experimental data, a contrast scale of minerals and rocks, including those present in paleontologic objects, has been constructed for neutron tomography. Examples of application of neutron tomography of geologic objects are given, and the potentialities of the above methods are compared.