A geological sample is provided to analysis equipment including a first X-ray emitter and a digital X-ray detector. The actions of activating the first X-ray emitter, located in a first position; activating a second X-ray emitter, located in a different position to the first X-ray emitter, or moving the first X-ray emitter to a different position and activating it; repeating the imaging step as required to analyse the core, each time using a different X-ray emitter, or the first X-ray emitter located in a different position; wherein the location of the digital detector, relative to the sample, remains stationary during the imaging steps; processing the digital signals provided by the digital detector to create digital X-ray images; processing the digital signals to determine compounds within, and porosity of, the sample by means of relative absorption at different X-ray energy levels; and processing the digital X-ray images are performed.

The invention comprises an apparatus and method of use thereof for using a single patient position during, optionally simultaneous, X-ray imaging and positively charged particle imaging, where imaging a tumor of a patient using X-rays and positively charged particles comprises the steps of: (1) generating an X-ray image using the X-rays directed from an X-ray source, through the patient, and to an X-ray detector, (2) generating a positively charged particle image: (a) using the positively charged particles directed from an exit nozzle, through the patient, through the X-ray detector, and to a scintillator, the scintillator emitting photons when struck by the positively charged particles and (b) generating the positively charged particle image of the tumor using a photon detector configured to detect the emitted photons, where the X-ray detector maintains a position between said the nozzle and the scintillator during the step of generating a positively charged particle image.

The invention relates to a coordinate measuring apparatus for measuring an object, having an x-ray sensory mechanism as a first sensory mechanism that is provided with an x-ray source and at least one x-ray sensor which detects the x-rays, and a second sensory mechanism such as a tactile and/or an optical sensory mechanism that can be placed in the x, y, and/or z direction of the coordinate measuring apparatus in relation to the object. In order to be able to easily measure also large-size test objects, the x-ray sensory mechanism can be positioned in the coordinate measuring apparatus according to the second sensory mechanism.