Cosmic ray radiography of a human phantom
Cosmic ray muons that reach the earth's surface provide a natural source of radiation that is used for radiography. In this paper, we show that radiography using the cosmic radiation background provides a method that can be used to monitor bulk aspects of human anatomy. We describe a method that can be used to measure changes in patients as a function of time by cosmic ray muon radiography. Modeling shows muon tomography could provide hourly readouts of parameters such as lung density with sufficient sensitivity to detect the time changes in the inflammation of the lungs in, e.g., COVID patients.
Authors
- M. S. Freeman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3496-0419)
- J. M. Durham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-3398)
- F. E. Merrill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0603-735X)
- John Oliver Perry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3639-5617)
- K. Borozdin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1560-672X)
- C. L. Morris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2141-0255)
- Jeffrey Bacon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1377-6054)
- Haruo Miyadera
Institutions
- Toshiba (Japan) (JP)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Decision Sciences International Corporation (United States) (US)
- Kairos (United States) (US)
- Kairos Power (United States)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Published
- 2025-03-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253548
- Primary Topic
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00