DocumentCode
227323
Title
A carbon nanotube based compact X-ray tube for medical diagnoses
Author
Jun-Tae Kang ; Jin-Woo Jeong ; Sungyoul Choi ; Ji-Hwan Yeon ; Sora Park ; Sunghee Kim ; Yoon-Ho Song ; Jae-Woo Kim ; Min-Sik Shin ; Sung-Jun Ahn
Author_Institution
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea
fYear
2014
fDate
June 30 2014-July 4 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
We have fabricated a compact X-ray tube with carbon nanotube (CNT) field emitters. The compact X-ray tube exhibited stable and reliable digital operation with a high current. The good X-ray image was taken by using the X-ray tube at an anode voltage of 37 kV.
Keywords
X-ray tubes; carbon nanotube field effect transistors; diagnostic radiography; nanomedicine; CNT; X-ray image; anode voltage; carbon nanotube field emitters; compact X-ray tube; digital operation; medical diagnoses; voltage 37 kV; Anodes; Carbon nanotubes; Electron tubes; Medical diagnostic imaging; Mice; X-ray imaging;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVESC), 2014 Tenth International
Conference_Location
St. Petersburg
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-5770-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IVESC.2014.6892002
Filename
6892002
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