Intense clean characteristic flash x-ray irradiation from an evaporating molybdenum diode

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Sagae, Michiaki ^a   Sato, Eiichi ^a   Tanaka, Etsuro ^b   Mori, Hidezo ^c   Kawai, Toshiaki ^d   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a   Sato, Shigehiro ^a   Takayama, Kazuyoshi ^e   Onagawa, Jun ^f   Ido, Hideaki ^f  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bremsstrahlung x ray distribution; Characteristic x rays; Energy selective radiography; Flash x ray; Quasi monochromatic x rays

Indexed keywords

DIODES; MOLYBDENUM; RADIATION; X RAY TUBES;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG X-RAY DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY-SELECTIVE RADIOGRAPHY; FLASH X-RAY; MOLYBDENUM DIODE; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC X-RAYS; X-RAY IRRADIATION;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34347374484     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2541668     Document Type: Article

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