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"Taking Pictures with Sound" Article appeared in Science, page 10, December 9, 1957.

Xray pictures with sound waves? Argonne National Laboratory is demonstrating it can be done, though the "pictures"
aren't yet of standard quality.

W.N. Beck of Argonne's Metallurgy Division pioneered the technique when he needed
ultrasonic inspection of reactor fuel elements to detect discontinuities in the bond between the fuel and its cladding.
Then he turned the device on himself and showed that a usable "X-ray" of the hand could be made.

Standard ultrasonic equipment is used, with two crystals - one to transmit, one to receive the vibrations.

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When one
scanner encounters a flaw in the fuel element (or a bone in the hand), reception is interupted and a white space appears
on the electrosensitive recording sheet (see photo).

 

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Argonne National Lab Highlights: 1950-1959 (A.N.L.

Official Website)

1957

April 17 -- A short article by Argonne physicist W. N