Investigation of transmission anode x-ray tubes

D. Tan

doi:10.1117/12.219605

15 September 1995 Investigation of transmission anode x-ray tubes

D. Tan

Proceedings Volume 2511, Law Enforcement Technologies: Identification Technologies and Traffic Safety; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.219605
Event: European Symposium on Optics for Environmental and Public Safety, 1995, Munich, Germany

Abstract

For plastic explosives detection with coherent x-ray scattering, x-ray tubes are required having high brightness and a 'white' spectral shape. Since the photon spectrum of reflection-type x- ray tubes drops rapidly above the K edge, the properties of transmission anode x-ray tubes have been investigated. In order to maximize the brightness, the use of a geometry in which the intensity of bremsstrahlung radiation has a maximum is proposed. Experimental results obtained from such an x-ray tube are presented.

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D. Tan "Investigation of transmission anode x-ray tubes", Proc. SPIE 2511, Law Enforcement Technologies: Identification Technologies and Traffic Safety, (15 September 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.219605

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