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- Subject: Re: Airport X-Rays
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.135802.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:58:02 GMT
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- In article <Bs5s3E.68p@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon) writes:>
- > I seriously doubt that there is any focussing of the eletrons at all. I think
- > there is simply a high voltage between a small hot cathode and a larger
- > target. If the target is flat (for example) and much larger than the cathode,
- > then the electrons will follow the field lines and all impact roughly
- > perpendicular to the surface. No focussing necessary. After all, we don't
- > care WHERE the electrons hit the target, just that they hit with the correct
- > momentum.
- >
-
- Because of electrostatic repulsion of the electron beam in an x-ray tube, the
- electrons are normally focused by electrostatic means. We do care where the
- electrons hit the target because this will affect the resolution of the image
- produced by the x-ray beam and the heat build-up in the anode. It is true that
- x rays will be produced isotropically in the target by bremsstrahlung (and to a
- lesser extent by electron transitions <characteristic radiation>) but if the
- target is angled self-absorption in the anode will produce a useful beam in the
- desired direction.
-
- Michael Connor/Castigat rideno mores!
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