A multi-beam x-ray imaging system based on carbon nanotube field emitters

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, J ^a   Yang, G ^a   Lee, Y Z ^b   Cheng, Y ^c   Gao, B ^c   Qiu, Q ^c   Lu, J P ^a   Zhou, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Xintek Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Field emission; Multi beam x ray source; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC SWITCHING; FIELD EMISSION; MULTI-BEAM FIELD EMISSION X-RAY (MBFEX); MULTI-BEAM X-RAY SOURCE; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOSFET DEVICES; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745390090     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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