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Basic physics of X-ray imaging
Carl A Carlsson and Gudrun Alm Carlsson
Department of Radiation Physics
Faculty of Health Sciences
Linköping university
Sweden
REPORT
LiH-RAD-R-008
Second edition 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction .........3
2. The physics of the X-ray source: the X-ray tube .........3
3. The energy spectrum of X-rays .........7
4. The interactions of X-rays with matter .........12
5. Contrast .........19
6. Energy absorption of X-rays .........22
7. Stochastics in the X-ray image .........27
8. Appendix .........28
9. References .........29

Basic physics of X-ray imaging
1. INTRODUCTION
In X-ray diagnostics, radiation that is partly transmitted through and partly absorbed in
the irradiated object is utilised. An X-ray image shows the variations in transmission
caused by structures in the object of varying thickness, density or atomic composition. In
Figure 1, the necessary attributes for X-ray imaging are......

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Approximate Pages: 27 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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