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Conference Paper A fully vacuum-sealed miniature x-ray tube with carbon nanotube field emitters for compact portable dental x-ray system
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Authors
Sora Park, Jin-Woo Jeong, Jae-Woo Kim, Jun-Tae Kang, Ki Nam Yun, Ji-Hwan Yeon, Sunghee Kim, Hyojin Jeon, Eunsol Go, Jeong-Woong Lee, Yoon-Ho Song
Issue Date
2018-02
Citation
Medical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging, pp.1-6
Language
English
Type
Conference Paper
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2293472
Abstract
There have been many efforts to develop x-ray sources using field electron emitters instead of conventional thermionic cathodes for digital controlling of x-rays in medical imaging. Specially, portable x-ray systems need a miniature x-ray tube with less-power consumption, easy insulation of high voltage and light shielding of x-rays. Carbon nanotube (CNT) has attracted much attention as the most promising field emitter due to its geometric high aspect ratio, high physical and chemical inertness. To date, however, CNT field emitters have not been satisfactorily incorporated into a fully vacuum-sealed x-ray tube due to their instability and/or unreliability. We successfully developed a fully vacuum-sealed, miniature x-ray tube with CNT emitters for portable dental x-ray systems. The x-ray tube was designed in a triode configuration with a self-electron focusing gate and reliable CNT emitters, and was fully vacuum-sealed within a miniaturized volume of 15 mm in diagonal and 65 mm in length, very tiny and small as compared with conventional thermionic one. The nominal focal spot size of the x-ray tube is 0.4 mm with an operational tube voltage of 65 kV and a current of 3 mA, which offers quite good x-ray images of a human tooth phantom. No heating the miniature x-ray tube for electron emission leads to easy insulation of high tube voltage and light shielding of x-rays, giving a compact and light portable x-ray system. Furthermore, digital operation of the x-ray tube through an active-current control could provide a commercial lifetime along with pretty good stability.
KSP Keywords
Carbon nano-tube(CNT), Electron Emission, Field electron emitters, High Voltage, High aspect ratio, Medical Imaging, Miniature X-ray tube, Power Consumption, Spot size, Thermionic cathodes, Tube voltage