Compact monochromatic flash x-ray generator utilizing a disk-cathode molybdenum tube
- Department of Physics, Iwate Medical University, 3-16-1 Honchodori Morioka 020-0015 (Japan)
The high-voltage condensers in a polarity-inversion two-stage Marx surge generator are charged from -50 to -70 kV by a power supply, and the electric charges in the condensers are discharged to an x-ray tube after closing gap switches in the surge generator with a trigger device. The x-ray tube is a demountable diode, and the turbo molecular pump evacuates air from the tube with a pressure of approximately 1 mPa. Clean molybdenum K{alpha} lines are produced using a 20 {mu}m-thick zirconium filter, since the tube utilizes a disk cathode and a rod target, and bremsstrahlung rays are not emitted in the opposite direction to that of electron acceleration. At a charging voltage of -70 kV, the instantaneous tube voltage and current were 120 kV and 1.0 kA, respectively. The x-ray pulse widths were approximately 70 ns, and the generator produced instantaneous number of K{alpha} photons was approximately 3x10{sup 7} photons/cm{sup 2} per pulse at 0.5 m from the source of 3.0 mm in diameter.
- OSTI ID:
- 20634637
- Journal Information:
- Medical Physics, Vol. 32, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1118/1.1829247; (c) 2005 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-2405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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