Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

X-ray tube

Index X-ray tube

An X-ray tube is a vacuum tube that converts electrical input power into X-rays. [1]

100 relations: Absorption spectroscopy, Anti-gravity, Atomic number, Auger therapy, Automatic exposure control, Beryllium, Bremsstrahlung, Bucky-Potter grid, Cerium hexaboride, CheMin, Cobalt therapy, Cold cathode, Crookes tube, CT scan, Donald William Kerst, Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, Duane–Hunt law, Electric generator, Electrogravitics, Electron beam tomography, Electronic component, F. H. Faulding & Co, FDD, Field emitter array, Fleming valve, Focal plane tomography, Gamma ray, GE Healthcare, Geissler tube, Glass-to-metal seal, Glidcop, Glow discharge, Harry Buckwalter, Heavy metals, Heel effect, Helena M. Weiss, Herbert Jackson (chemist), High-energy X-rays, High-voltage cable, Homer Clyde Snook, Hot cathode, Hudson, Massachusetts, Index of physics articles (X), Induction coil, Industrial radiography, Interrupter, Iodinated contrast, Ionizing radiation, James Powell and Sons, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, ..., June 1931, Justus Mühlenpfordt, Kapton, Karl Friedrich Schall, Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt, L.A.M. Phelan, Lanthanum hexaboride, List of centenarians (scientists and mathematicians), List of civilian radiation accidents, List of German inventions and discoveries, List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees, List of Welsh inventors, Measuring instrument, Melville Eastham, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Moseley's law, Oil drop experiment, Operation of computed tomography, Orthovoltage X-rays, Oxford Instruments, Peak kilovoltage, Period 6 element, Phase-contrast X-ray imaging, Powder diffraction, Projectional radiography, Radiation therapy, Radiography, Rare-earth element, RMA tube designation, Rotational angiography, Science and technology in Hungary, Siegbahn notation, Straton tube, Superficial X-rays, Surface science, Svetlana (company), Tungsten, Vacuum tube, Vale Cemetery and Vale Park, Walk of Ideas, William D. Coolidge, William Hampson, Wimshurst machine, X-ray, X-ray astronomy detector, X-ray crystallography, X-ray generator, X-ray microscope, X-ray source, X-ray spectroscopy. Expand index (50 more) »

Absorption spectroscopy

Absorption spectroscopy refers to spectroscopic techniques that measure the absorption of radiation, as a function of frequency or wavelength, due to its interaction with a sample.

New!!: X-ray tube and Absorption spectroscopy · See more »

Anti-gravity

Anti-gravity (also known as non-gravitational field) is an idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity.

New!!: X-ray tube and Anti-gravity · See more »

Atomic number

The atomic number or proton number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom.

New!!: X-ray tube and Atomic number · See more »

Auger therapy

Auger therapy (AT) is a form of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer which relies on a large number of low-energy electrons (emitted by the Auger effect) to damage cancer cells, rather than the high-energy radiation used in traditional radiation therapy.

New!!: X-ray tube and Auger therapy · See more »

Automatic exposure control

Automatic Exposure Control (AEC) is an X-ray exposure termination device.

New!!: X-ray tube and Automatic exposure control · See more »

Beryllium

Beryllium is a chemical element with symbol Be and atomic number 4.

New!!: X-ray tube and Beryllium · See more »

Bremsstrahlung

Bremsstrahlung, from bremsen "to brake" and Strahlung "radiation"; i.e., "braking radiation" or "deceleration radiation", is electromagnetic radiation produced by the deceleration of a charged particle when deflected by another charged particle, typically an electron by an atomic nucleus.

New!!: X-ray tube and Bremsstrahlung · See more »

Bucky-Potter grid

The Bucky-Potter grid is a device invented by German radiologist Gustav Bucky and improved by American radiologist Hollis E. Potter that enhances the quality of diagnostic medical x-ray images.

New!!: X-ray tube and Bucky-Potter grid · See more »

Cerium hexaboride

Cerium hexaboride (CeB6, also called cerium boride, CeBix, CEBIX, and (incorrectly) CeB) is an inorganic chemical, a boride of cerium.

New!!: X-ray tube and Cerium hexaboride · See more »

CheMin

CheMin, short for Chemistry and Mineralogy, is an instrument located in the interior of the ''Curiosity'' rover that is exploring the surface of Gale crater on Mars.

New!!: X-ray tube and CheMin · See more »

Cobalt therapy

Cobalt therapy or cobalt-60 therapy is the medical use of gamma rays from the radioisotope cobalt-60 to treat conditions such as cancer.

New!!: X-ray tube and Cobalt therapy · See more »

Cold cathode

A cold cathode is a cathode that is not electrically heated by a filament.

New!!: X-ray tube and Cold cathode · See more »

Crookes tube

A Crookes tube (also Crookes–Hittorf tube) is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered.

New!!: X-ray tube and Crookes tube · See more »

CT scan

A CT scan, also known as computed tomography scan, makes use of computer-processed combinations of many X-ray measurements taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional (tomographic) images (virtual "slices") of specific areas of a scanned object, allowing the user to see inside the object without cutting.

New!!: X-ray tube and CT scan · See more »

Donald William Kerst

Donald William Kerst (November 1, 1911 – August 19, 1993) was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts (accelerator physics) and plasma physics.

New!!: X-ray tube and Donald William Kerst · See more »

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, previously DEXA) is a means of measuring bone mineral density (BMD).

New!!: X-ray tube and Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry · See more »

Duane–Hunt law

The Duane–Hunt law, named after the American physicists William Duane and Franklin Hunt, gives the maximum frequency of X-rays that can be emitted by Bremsstrahlung in an X-ray tube by accelerating electrons through an excitation voltage V into a metal target.

New!!: X-ray tube and Duane–Hunt law · See more »

Electric generator

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit.

New!!: X-ray tube and Electric generator · See more »

Electrogravitics

Electrogravitics is claimed to be an unconventional type of effect or anti-gravity force created by an electric field's effect on a mass.

New!!: X-ray tube and Electrogravitics · See more »

Electron beam tomography

Electron beam tomography (EBT) is a specific form of computed tomography (CT) in which the X-ray tube is not mechanically spun in order to rotate the source of X-ray photons.

New!!: X-ray tube and Electron beam tomography · See more »

Electronic component

An electronic component is any basic discrete device or physical entity in an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields.

New!!: X-ray tube and Electronic component · See more »

F. H. Faulding & Co

F.

New!!: X-ray tube and F. H. Faulding & Co · See more »

FDD

FDD may refer to.

New!!: X-ray tube and FDD · See more »

Field emitter array

A field emitter array (FEA) is a particular form of large-area field electron source.

New!!: X-ray tube and Field emitter array · See more »

Fleming valve

The Fleming valve, also called the Fleming oscillation valve, was a thermionic valve or vacuum tube invented in 1904 by Englishman John Ambrose Fleming as a detector for early radio receivers used in electromagnetic wireless telegraphy.

New!!: X-ray tube and Fleming valve · See more »

Focal plane tomography

In radiography, focal plane tomography is tomography (imaging a single plane, or slice, of an object) by simultaneously moving the X-ray generator and X-ray detector so as to keep a consistent exposure of only the plane of interest during image acquisition.

New!!: X-ray tube and Focal plane tomography · See more »

Gamma ray

A gamma ray or gamma radiation (symbol γ or \gamma), is penetrating electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.

New!!: X-ray tube and Gamma ray · See more »

GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

New!!: X-ray tube and GE Healthcare · See more »

Geissler tube

A Geissler tube is an early gas discharge tube used to demonstrate the principles of electrical glow discharge, similar to modern neon lighting.

New!!: X-ray tube and Geissler tube · See more »

Glass-to-metal seal

Glass-to-metal seals are a very important element of the construction of vacuum tubes, electric discharge tubes, incandescent light bulbs, glass encapsulated semiconductor diodes, reed switches, pressure tight glass windows in metal cases, and metal or ceramic packages of electronic components.

New!!: X-ray tube and Glass-to-metal seal · See more »

Glidcop

Glidcop is the registered trademark name of North American Höganäs, that refers to a family of copper-based metal matrix composite (MMC) alloys mixed primarily with aluminum oxide ceramic particles.

New!!: X-ray tube and Glidcop · See more »

Glow discharge

A glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of electric current through a gas.

New!!: X-ray tube and Glow discharge · See more »

Harry Buckwalter

Harry Hale Buckwalter (November 1, 1867 – March 7, 1930), sometimes credited as Harry H. Buckwalter or Henry H. Buckwalter, was an American photographer, journalist, photojournalist, and silent film director and producer.

New!!: X-ray tube and Harry Buckwalter · See more »

Heavy metals

Heavy metals are generally defined as metals with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.

New!!: X-ray tube and Heavy metals · See more »

Heel effect

In X-ray tubes, the heel effect or more accurately, the anode heel effect is a variation of the intensity of X-rays emitted by the anode depending on the direction of emission.

New!!: X-ray tube and Heel effect · See more »

Helena M. Weiss

Helena May Weiss (February 6, 1909 – January 21, 2004) was an American museum administrator and registrar.

New!!: X-ray tube and Helena M. Weiss · See more »

Herbert Jackson (chemist)

Emeritus Professor Sir Herbert Jackson, KBE, FRS (1863–1936) was a British chemist.

New!!: X-ray tube and Herbert Jackson (chemist) · See more »

High-energy X-rays

High-energy X-rays or HEX-rays are very hard X-rays, with typical energies of 80–1000 keV (1 MeV), about one order of magnitude higher than conventional X-rays (and well into gamma-ray energies over 120 keV).

New!!: X-ray tube and High-energy X-rays · See more »

High-voltage cable

A high-voltage cable (HV cable) is a cable used for electric power transmission at high voltage.

New!!: X-ray tube and High-voltage cable · See more »

Homer Clyde Snook

Homer Clyde Snook (25 March 1878 – 23 September 1942) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.

New!!: X-ray tube and Homer Clyde Snook · See more »

Hot cathode

In vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes, a hot cathode or thermionic cathode is a cathode electrode which is heated to make it emit electrons due to thermionic emission.

New!!: X-ray tube and Hot cathode · See more »

Hudson, Massachusetts

Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, with a total population of 19,063 as of the 2010 census.

New!!: X-ray tube and Hudson, Massachusetts · See more »

Index of physics articles (X)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

New!!: X-ray tube and Index of physics articles (X) · See more »

Induction coil

An induction coil or "spark coil" (archaically known as an inductorium or Ruhmkorff coil after Heinrich Ruhmkorff) is a type of electrical transformer used to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage direct current (DC) supply.

New!!: X-ray tube and Induction coil · See more »

Industrial radiography

Industrial radiography is a method of non-destructive testing where many types of manufactured components can be examined to verify the internal structure and integrity of the specimen.

New!!: X-ray tube and Industrial radiography · See more »

Interrupter

An interrupter in electrical engineering is a device used to interrupt the flow of a steady direct current for the purpose of converting a steady current into a changing one.

New!!: X-ray tube and Interrupter · See more »

Iodinated contrast

Iodinated contrast is a form of intravenous radiocontrast (radiographic dye) containing iodine, which enhances the visibility of vascular structures and organs during radiographic procedures.

New!!: X-ray tube and Iodinated contrast · See more »

Ionizing radiation

Ionizing radiation (ionising radiation) is radiation that carries enough energy to liberate electrons from atoms or molecules, thereby ionizing them.

New!!: X-ray tube and Ionizing radiation · See more »

James Powell and Sons

The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers.

New!!: X-ray tube and James Powell and Sons · See more »

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963) was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian-born German-American physicist and electronic engineer, credited with the first patents on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925) and electrolytic capacitor (1931).

New!!: X-ray tube and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld · See more »

June 1931

The following events occurred in June 1931.

New!!: X-ray tube and June 1931 · See more »

Justus Mühlenpfordt

Justus Mühlenpfordt (22 April 1911 in Lübeck – 2 October 2000) was a German nuclear physicist.

New!!: X-ray tube and Justus Mühlenpfordt · See more »

Kapton

Kapton is a polyimide film developed by DuPont in the late 1960s that remains stable across a wide range of temperatures, from.

New!!: X-ray tube and Kapton · See more »

Karl Friedrich Schall

Karl Friedrich Schall (16 March 1859 – 19 September 1925) was a German precision engineer and co-founder of the company Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall (RGS) in Erlangen.

New!!: X-ray tube and Karl Friedrich Schall · See more »

Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt

VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt was an important manufacturer of active electronic components in East Germany.

New!!: X-ray tube and Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt · See more »

L.A.M. Phelan

L.A.M. Phelan was an American businessman and inventor.

New!!: X-ray tube and L.A.M. Phelan · See more »

Lanthanum hexaboride

Lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6, also called lanthanum boride and LaB) is an inorganic chemical, a boride of lanthanum.

New!!: X-ray tube and Lanthanum hexaboride · See more »

List of centenarians (scientists and mathematicians)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as scientists and mathematicians – known for reasons other than their longevity.

New!!: X-ray tube and List of centenarians (scientists and mathematicians) · See more »

List of civilian radiation accidents

This article lists notable civilian accidents involving radioactive materials or involving ionizing radiation from artificial sources such as x-ray tubes and particle accelerators.

New!!: X-ray tube and List of civilian radiation accidents · See more »

List of German inventions and discoveries

The following (incomplete) list is composed of items, techniques and processes that were invented by or discovered by people from Germany or German-speaking Europe.

New!!: X-ray tube and List of German inventions and discoveries · See more »

List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) inductees includes over 500 inventors spanning three centuries of lifetimes.

New!!: X-ray tube and List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees · See more »

List of Welsh inventors

This is a list of people of Welsh origin who are recognised as innovators or inventors who have made notable contributions to technical or theoretical world advancements.

New!!: X-ray tube and List of Welsh inventors · See more »

Measuring instrument

A measuring instrument is a device for measuring a physical quantity.

New!!: X-ray tube and Measuring instrument · See more »

Melville Eastham

Melville Eastham (June 26, 1885 – May 6, 1964) was a noted American radio pioneer and business executive.

New!!: X-ray tube and Melville Eastham · See more »

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

New!!: X-ray tube and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · See more »

Moseley's law

Moseley's law is an empirical law concerning the characteristic x-rays that are emitted by atoms.

New!!: X-ray tube and Moseley's law · See more »

Oil drop experiment

The oil drop experiment was performed by Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron).

New!!: X-ray tube and Oil drop experiment · See more »

Operation of computed tomography

X-ray computed tomography operates by using an X-ray generator that rotates around the object; X-ray detectors are positioned on the opposite side of the circle from the X-ray source.

New!!: X-ray tube and Operation of computed tomography · See more »

Orthovoltage X-rays

Orthovoltage x-rays are produced by x-ray tubes operating at voltages in the 100–500 kV range, and therefore the x-rays have a peak energy in the 100–500 keV range.

New!!: X-ray tube and Orthovoltage X-rays · See more »

Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments plc is a United Kingdom manufacturing and research company that designs and manufactures tools and systems for industry and research.

New!!: X-ray tube and Oxford Instruments · See more »

Peak kilovoltage

Peak kilovoltage (kVp) refers to the maximum high voltage applied across an X-ray tube during the creation of x-rays within it.

New!!: X-ray tube and Peak kilovoltage · See more »

Period 6 element

A period 6 element is one of the chemical elements in the sixth row (or period) of the periodic table of the elements, including the lanthanides.

New!!: X-ray tube and Period 6 element · See more »

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging (PCI) or phase-sensitive X-ray imaging is a general term for different technical methods that use information concerning changes in the phase of an X-ray beam that passes through an object in order to create its images.

New!!: X-ray tube and Phase-contrast X-ray imaging · See more »

Powder diffraction

Powder diffraction is a scientific technique using X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction on powder or microcrystalline samples for structural characterization of materials.

New!!: X-ray tube and Powder diffraction · See more »

Projectional radiography

Projectional radiography is a form of radiography and medical imaging that produces two-dimensional images by x-ray radiation.

New!!: X-ray tube and Projectional radiography · See more »

Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is therapy using ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator.

New!!: X-ray tube and Radiation therapy · See more »

Radiography

Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays to view the internal form of an object.

New!!: X-ray tube and Radiography · See more »

Rare-earth element

A rare-earth element (REE) or rare-earth metal (REM), as defined by IUPAC, is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium.

New!!: X-ray tube and Rare-earth element · See more »

RMA tube designation

In the years 1942-1944, the Radio Manufacturers Association used a descriptive nomenclature system for industrial, transmitting, and special-purpose vacuum tubes.

New!!: X-ray tube and RMA tube designation · See more »

Rotational angiography

Rotational angiography is a medical imaging technique based on x-ray, that allows to acquire CT-like 3D volumes during hybrid surgery or during a catheter intervention using a fixed C-Arm.

New!!: X-ray tube and Rotational angiography · See more »

Science and technology in Hungary

Science and technology in Hungary is one of the country's most developed sectors.

New!!: X-ray tube and Science and technology in Hungary · See more »

Siegbahn notation

The Siegbahn notation is used in X-ray spectroscopy to name the spectral lines that are characteristic to elements.

New!!: X-ray tube and Siegbahn notation · See more »

Straton tube

The Straton tube (Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany) is the first x-ray tube from the class of rotating envelope tubes (RET) applied in computed tomography.

New!!: X-ray tube and Straton tube · See more »

Superficial X-rays

Superficial X-rays are low-energy X-rays that do not penetrate very far before they are absorbed.

New!!: X-ray tube and Superficial X-rays · See more »

Surface science

Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid–gas interfaces.

New!!: X-ray tube and Surface science · See more »

Svetlana (company)

PJSC Svetlana (ПАО «Светлана») is a company based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

New!!: X-ray tube and Svetlana (company) · See more »

Tungsten

Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.

New!!: X-ray tube and Tungsten · See more »

Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.

New!!: X-ray tube and Vacuum tube · See more »

Vale Cemetery and Vale Park

Vale Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Schenectady, New York.

New!!: X-ray tube and Vale Cemetery and Vale Park · See more »

Walk of Ideas

The Walk of Ideas was a set of six sculptures in central Berlin designed by Scholz & Friends for the 2006 FIFA World Cup football event in Germany.

New!!: X-ray tube and Walk of Ideas · See more »

William D. Coolidge

William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873 – February 3, 1975) was an American physicist and engineer, who made major contributions to X-ray machines.

New!!: X-ray tube and William D. Coolidge · See more »

William Hampson

William Hampson (born 14 March 1854 in Bebington, Merseyside (formerly: Cheshire), England – died 1 January 1926 in Holland Park, London, England) was the first person to patent a process for liquifying air.

New!!: X-ray tube and William Hampson · See more »

Wimshurst machine

The Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and 1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst (1832–1903).

New!!: X-ray tube and Wimshurst machine · See more »

X-ray

X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray · See more »

X-ray astronomy detector

X-ray astronomy detectors are instruments that detect X-rays for use in the study of X-ray astronomy.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray astronomy detector · See more »

X-ray crystallography

X-ray crystallography is a technique used for determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline atoms cause a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray crystallography · See more »

X-ray generator

An X-ray generator is a device that produces X-rays.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray generator · See more »

X-ray microscope

An X-ray microscope uses electromagnetic radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce magnified images of objects.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray microscope · See more »

X-ray source

X-ray sources abound around us.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray source · See more »

X-ray spectroscopy

X-ray spectroscopy is a gathering name for several spectroscopic techniques for characterization of materials by using x-ray excitation.

New!!: X-ray tube and X-ray spectroscopy · See more »

Redirects here:

Conventional X-ray generator, Conventional X-ray generators, Coolidge tube, Heat unit, Microfocus X-ray, Microfocus x-ray, Tube voltage, X-Ray Tube, X-Ray tube, X-ray tubes, Xray tube.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_tube

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »