X-ray imaging: past and present

Ulrich Bonse

doi:10.1117/12.794694

4 September 2008 X-ray imaging: past and present

Ulrich Bonse

Proceedings Volume 7078, Developments in X-Ray Tomography VI; 707802 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794694
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Because x-rays can penetrate almost any object and yield information of the interior of specimens opaque to visible light, they have been used as a powerful tool for the investigation of all kinds of materials and bodies right from their discovery by Conrad Roentgen¹ in 1895. Among the multitude of different ways such studies can be performed the imaging methods play a predominant and most important role. The intent is to describe some interesting and relevant ways x-ray imaging has been employed up to now. Clinical tomography will be excluded here. Recent surveys exist in the literature, e.g.².

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Ulrich Bonse "X-ray imaging: past and present", Proc. SPIE 7078, Developments in X-Ray Tomography VI, 707802 (4 September 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794694

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