• 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