Fresnel zone plate imaging of gamma rays; theory

Applied Optics
H H Barrett, F A Horrigan

Abstract

The use of a Fresnel zone plate as a coded aperture for imaging incoherent radiation such as gamma rays has been previously reported. The coded image is in many respects similar to a hologram and can be decoded or reconstructed with a coherent optical system. In this paper, the general theory of coded-aperture imaging is presented, first for an arbitrary code and then for an on-axis zone plate, an off-axis zone plate, and a one-dimensional zone plate (or linear chirp). With the on-axis plate, a matched imaging condition is suggested as a guide to optimizing image contrast. With the off-axis zone plate and the linear chirp, it is necessary to use a half-tone screen to spatially heterodyne the object spectrum into the passband of the aperture. In all three cases, expressions for the resolution, depth of field, field of view, and relative efficiency are derived. A simplified noise analysis is presented, and some practical system constraints are discussed.

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