Carbon nanotube based microfocus field emission x-ray source for microcomputed tomography

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Zejian ^a   Yang, Guang ^a   Lee, Yueh Z ^b   Bordelon, David ^c   Lu, Jianping ^a,c   Zhou, Otto ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EINZEL LENSES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; X-RAY TUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33748517225     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2345829     Document Type: Article

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