High-intensity quasi-monochromatic x-ray irradiation from the linear plasma target

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4505, Issue , 2001, Pages 154-164

  Sato, Eiichi ^a   Suzuki, Yusaku ^b   Hayasi, Yasuomi ^b   Tanaka, Etsuro ^c   Mori, Hidezo ^d   Kawai, Toshiaki ^e   Takayama, Kazuyoshi ^f   Ido, Hideaki ^g   Tamakawa, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HACHINOHE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^e CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONOCHROMATORS; PLASMA DEVICES; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIOGRAPHY; TARGETS; X RAY TUBES;

LINEAR PLASMA TARGETS;

X RAY PRODUCTION;

EID: 0035764460     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450586     Document Type: Article

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