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Determination of diagnostic x‐ray spectra with characteristic radiation using attenuation analysis
Author(s) -
Archer Benjamin R.,
Wagner Louis K.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.596220
Subject(s) - attenuation , radiation , medical imaging , nuclear medicine , materials science , optics , medical physics , physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , radiology , medicine
An analytical method to compute x‐ray spectra from attenuation data utilizing the Laplace transformation has been extended to include characteristic radiation. It is based on an a priori technique of determining the ratio of characteristic radiation exposure to the total radiation exposure in diagnostic spectra. The technique is shown to produce characteristic intensities in good agreement with experimentally determined values.