Light controlled x-ray scanner

Details Light controlled x-ray scanner Light controlled x-ray scanner

1983-12-28

1986-08-12

Church, Craig E.

X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices

Specific application

Computerized tomography

378136, 378119, H01J 3506, H01J 3500, G01N 2300

Patent

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046060618

ABSTRACT:
A light controlled X-ray scanner having a source of X-rays which includes parallelly oriented ring cathodes and anodes located within an annular evacuated closure. Provisions are made for sweeping a light beam around a surface of the cathode and extracting X-rays from a corresponding surface of the anode.

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"Cinetomography", IMATRON, publication date unknown.
"Transmission Computed Tomography" Future Technologies, pp. 4366-4368, publication data unknown.

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