Development of the compact low-energy soft x-ray CT instrument for the soft material structural analysis

Autor:	Nobutada Aoki, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Atsushi Koishikawa, Motosuke Miyoshi, Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Takao Hamakubo
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Soft x ray Materials science medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Computed tomography Condensed Matter Physics Soft materials Biological materials Crystallography Optics Low energy medicine Electrical and Electronic Engineering business
Zdroj:	Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 26:2356-2361
ISSN:	1520-8567 1071-1023
DOI:	10.1116/1.2978397
Popis:	Microtomography using the combination of microfocus x-ray source and the cone-beam technique is now becoming widely used in material science and in industry. Recently, the structural analysis of soft materials, such as polymer fibers and biological materials, is strongly required. A compact low-energy soft x-ray computed tomography (CT) instrument capable of soft material observation was developed, and the proof-of-concept system was constructed and evaluated. In this article, the authors describe an instrument that they developed for the x-ray CT of soft materials. A newly developed x-ray tube for generating the low-energy continuum soft x ray is also described. Tomographic observation examples of both biomaterials and industrial polymers are demonstrated.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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