Measurement of X-Ray tube accelerating potential by differential beam filtration

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 745-749

  Gard, Michael F ^a  

^a Charles Machine Works   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; SIGNAL GENERATORS; WAVE FILTERS; X RAY TUBES;

FILTER RESPONSE RATIO; GENERATOR POTENTIALS; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY BEAM; X RAY GENERATOR;

VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030164929     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.494592     Document Type: Article

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