DINGO - the neutron imaging station at ANSTO: embracing material science, palaeontology, and cultural heritage

摘要

After one year of hot commissioning, Australia jumped to the forefront of neutron imaging with the startup of the instrument DINGO on the OPAL reactor at ANSTO in early 2014. With barely a dozen neutron imaging stations world-wide, this brought the much-needed capability of state-of-the-art neutron radiography and neutron tomography setups [1, 2] to the Asia-Oceania region. Acquisition speed and spatial resolution can be tuned by choosing amongst different sets of apertures, scintillation screens, and detector systems to meet the needs of the broad user community. Researchers, curators, and industrial clients now have access to one of the highest-intensity neutron-imaging instruments in the world, able to obtain detailed radiographs of scientific objects, museum artefacts, and engineering pieces in seconds to minutes, three-dimensional tomographs in several hours, and movies of processes such as running engines or motors, and the flow of fluids in fuel cells, all non-destructively.