Author(s)

Tatiana Shelkovenko, Sergey Pikuz, David Hammer

Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Two methods of using the X-pinch as a source of X-ray radiation for radiography of biological objects are presented. X-pinches are found to be a very flexible method for generation of radiation over a wide spectral range and provide a high spatial and temporal resolution.

X-Pinch, X-Ray, Hot Spot, Electron Beam, Point-Projection Radiography, Biological Object

Shelkovenko, T. , Pikuz, S. and Hammer, D. (2015) X-Pinches as Broadband Sources of X-Rays for Radiography. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 8, 747-755. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2015.811071.