Liquid metal anode x-ray tube

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5196, Issue , 2004, Pages 432-443

  David, Bernd ^a   Barschdorf, Hans ^a   Doormann, Volker ^a   Eckart, Rainer ^a   Harding, Geoffrey ^a   Schlomka, Jens Peter ^a   Thran, Axel ^a   Bachmann, Peter ^a   Flisikowski, Peter ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron window; Liquid metal; Thermal transport; X ray source

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; HEAT TRANSFER; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LIQUID METALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; RADIOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

ELECTRON WINDOW; THERMAL TRANSPORT; X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAY TUBES;

EID: 1942453418     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.504503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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