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Tomographic reconstruction of emission volumes of MagLIF plasmas from orthogonal projection data

ORAL

Abstract

We present our most recent attempts to reconstruct the emission volumes from Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) stagnation events using x-ray imaging data from two, orthogonal projection views.  This work is needed to measure the three-dimensional shape of structures previously observed with only single-projection imaging.  Our approach involves the comparison of several reconstruction techniques, including basis function expansions and Expectation-Maximization with a variety of regularization schemes that seek to incorporate physical constraints to improve uniqueness in this highly ill-posed inverse problem.  Ultimately, we expect that an ensemble of solutions from a variety of reconstruction approaches can be used to estimate probability distributions of emission volumes and shape metrics with confidence intervals.

Presenters

  • Jeffrey R Fein

    Sandia National Laboratories

Authors

  • Jeffrey R Fein

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Eric Harding

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Christopher A Jennings

    Sandia National Laboratories