Muon tomography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate three
dimensional images of volumes using information contained in the Coulomb
scattering of the muons. Advantages of this technique are the ability of cosmic
rays to penetrate significant overburden and the absence of any additional dose
delivered to subjects under study above the natural cosmic ray flux.
Disadvantages include the relatively long exposure times and poor position
resolution and complex algorithms needed for reconstruction. Here we
demonstrate a new method for obtaining improved position resolution and
statistical precision for objects with spherical symmetry
