Study of increased radiation when an x-ray tube is placed in a strong magnetic field

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 408-418

  Wen, Zhifei ^a   Pelc, Norbert J ^a   Nelson, Walter R ^b   Fahrig, Rebecca ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattered electrons; Increased radiation; Magnetic field; X ray tube; XMR

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANODES; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; ELECTRON TRAJECTORIES; FINITE ELEMENT PROGRAMS; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF X-RAYS; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 33846612393     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2404618     Document Type: Article

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