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Using a desktop scanner to take x-ray photos

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Mon Oct 25 2010, 11:29AM Print
Download Registered Member #561 Joined: Sat Mar 03 2007, 02:46AM
Location: Adelaide Australia
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Long time, no post

So I've been thinking, could it be possible to use a desktop scanner to pick up x-rays? If you put a piece of thick, black card on top of it and disabled the lamps it might pick up x-rays? You would have to use an x-ray scanner that lacks mirrors though which might be a bit of trouble as there might not be any scanners without mirrors.

Anyone see any flaws in this plan?
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Sulaiman
Mon Oct 25 2010, 12:12PM
Sulaiman Registered Member #162 Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
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The x-ray optics are the obvious problem.
You could take an x-ray film photograph an scan it !
How about an X-Y plotter with an x-ray sensor/detector ?
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Wolfram
Mon Oct 25 2010, 12:50PM
Wolfram Registered Member #33 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 01:31PM
Location: Norway
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Henning Umland tried this, with some results Link2 .

I started a thread some years ago with a similar idea, though with a fluorescent screen instead of the piece of paper. It can be found here Link2 . I think it could give excellent results. The key is to shield the scanner probably, and as Plazmatron wrote, this is not easy with LiDE scanners.


Anders M.
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Conundrum
Tue Oct 26 2010, 07:32PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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thanks to Proud Mary I have two of these screens, used for X-ray film,

should work well if the screen is shielded (so light doesen't affect the linear CCD)
someone needs to try and make a homemade CT scanner... :)

-A
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Adam Munich
Wed Oct 27 2010, 01:02AM
Adam Munich Registered Member #2893 Joined: Tue Jun 01 2010, 09:25PM
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Remove the lamp and scan the light from the intensifying screen? A lot of scanners have LED lamps now, and in black and white mode they scan with a green light anyway.
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Download
Wed Oct 27 2010, 07:34AM
Download Registered Member #561 Joined: Sat Mar 03 2007, 02:46AM
Location: Adelaide Australia
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I'm liking the idea of a scanner with a slab of lead glass on it and a fluorescent screen, I'll have to get the screen though
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