Liquid-metal-jet anode x-ray tube

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1682-1688

  Hemberg, Oscar ^a   Otendal, Mikael ^a   Hertz, Hans M ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; IMAGE QUALITY; LIQUID METALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMAL EFFECTS; X RAY TUBES;

BRIGHTNESS; LIQUID METAL JET; X RAY IMAGING; X RAY SOURCE;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 4143078120     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1737787     Document Type: Article

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