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Article: U.S., Russian Inventors Develop Phase-Contrast X-ray Radiography System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 12, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 12 -- Katherine Chandler, David Hammer and Byungmoo Song, all from Ithaca, N.Y., Tatiana Chelkovenko and Sergei Pikuz, both of Moscow, Russia, and Daniel Sinars of Albuquerque, N.M., have developed a phase-contrast x-ray radiography system.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "radiograph system with an anode plate, a cathode plate, and a power source coupled to said anode plate and the cathode plate. At least two wires coupled between the anode plate and the cathode plate provide a configuration to form an X-pinch having a photon source size of less than five microns at energies above 2.5 Kiloelectron Volt (keV). Material at ...