Detective quantum efficiency (DQE)-oriented design of a transparent scintillator tandem x-ray/optical microscope for photon-starved 7.2-keV radiography at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
X-ray radiography at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) must simultaneously achieve micron-scale spatial resolution and adequate signal-to-noise ratio with a limited number of 7.2-keV photons. To address this coupled resolution-throughput challenge, we developed a scintillator-based x-ray imager using a tandem micros...