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INSTITUTE STUDIES SCIENCE OF 'INTROSCOPY'
Minsk SOVETSKAYA BELORUSSIYA 17 Oct 67 p 4
["A Window Into the Invisible, " by TASS correspondent A Presnyakov]
[Excerpts] On the facade of one of Moscow's buildings stands the inscription "NIIIN".
This is the abbreviation of Scientific-Research Institute of Introscopy ..... a term
introduced by the enthusiastic proponent of this new field of science ProfessorP.K.
Oshchepkov, who is also the founder of the science center. In the laboratories of this
young and unique institute the research is following hitherto untrodden paths.
A
scarch is being made for new methods of seeing; into things, and original apparatus and
instruments are being devised .... A special apparatus has been built for "viewing"
refractory furnace linings during their performance at extremely high temperatures.
TV techniques aid the transillumination of metals. I was shown two metals sheets that
had been welded together with a seam that looked absolutely sound.
Chief of the Sector
for Television Methods of Introscopy, B. I., Leonov manipulated some knobs and I saw
the seam enlarged on the screen ..
In another building. .. an X-ray beam is directed "toward a moving part and, after
penetrating it, is fed to a special converter-screen, the visible image of which is
picked up by a television camera and transmitted to the laboratory.
At present the institute is working on other methods of viewing transilluminated objects
directly, particularly with the use of the EOP (electron-optical converter ), which is
sensitive to both X-ray and visible radiation and makes it possible to view images of
transilluminated objects without the use of television.
A method of X-ray strobo-introscopy has been developed for monitoring high-speed
rotating parts in operation. A parallel development involves stereo-X-ray introscopy.
The head of the institute, P. K. Oshchepkovi isaid "Our scientists are using gamma rays
and radio waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation, and ultrasound. "
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