Process tomography with electron beams

Electron beams are versatile tools for material processing and imaging applications. Tomography with a scanned electron beam has already been proposed and realized more than 20 years ago with the cardiac electron beam CT. Though electron beam technology is somewhat intricate and complex the potentials of this technology regarding multiphase flow and process imaging are large. With the commissioning of a dedicated flow tomography scanner based on electron beam tomography our group now starts to use this technology for high-speed flow visualization in practical applications. One example is the study of gas-liquid mixture flows, which is an important flow type in nuclear and chemical engineering. Here we give an introduction into the measurement technology and discuss future prospects in scanner design and applications.