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Alarm clock X-Ray II
Some time ago I tried making an X-Ray image of a cheap, mostly-plastic alarm clock using my 55kV mailroom scanner cabinet. The resulting images are linked below. This image was made with my Faxitron microfocus cabinet at 35kV (its highest energy).
It's interesting to see that the greyscale is far better on this newer image, with a much better view of the plastic cogs and so on. In that respect it's most like the 'HDR' version of the previous attempt. The most notable difference, apart from the noise being lower noise, it that the thicker metal items are a lot less transparent. Particularly in the HDR version you can see through the crystal (the small elongated rectangle at an angle between the centre and the 'three o'clock' position). The 55kV X-Ray could see through this, and also through the bells, whereas this image they're opaque.
Alarm clock X-Ray II
Some time ago I tried making an X-Ray image of a cheap, mostly-plastic alarm clock using my 55kV mailroom scanner cabinet. The resulting images are linked below. This image was made with my Faxitron microfocus cabinet at 35kV (its highest energy).
It's interesting to see that the greyscale is far better on this newer image, with a much better view of the plastic cogs and so on. In that respect it's most like the 'HDR' version of the previous attempt. The most notable difference, apart from the noise being lower noise, it that the thicker metal items are a lot less transparent. Particularly in the HDR version you can see through the crystal (the small elongated rectangle at an angle between the centre and the 'three o'clock' position). The 55kV X-Ray could see through this, and also through the bells, whereas this image they're opaque.