Experimental layout for the realization of an X-ray plasma source driven by a Nd:YAG laser for biological and medical applications

L. Palladino; T. Limongi; G. Gualtieri; R. Gimenez De Lorenzo; P. Zuppella

doi:10.1080/10420150701780615

Experimental layout for the realization of an X-ray plasma source driven by a Nd:YAG laser for biological and medical applications

L. Palladino^*, T. Limongi, G. Gualtieri, R. Gimenez De Lorenzo, P. Zuppella

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Abstract

In this paper, an experimental set-up for the X-ray production (70eV-25keV energy range) by a plasma, obtained focalizing a high-power Nd:YAG laser beam on a specific target, is presented. The measures of the characteristics of a custom Nd:YAG high-power laser beam (maximum of 8J at 1064nm, 5ns pulse duration) and a new disposition of the target-lens system in the interaction chamber are discussed. The aim of this research is the use of the plasma resulting by the focalization of the laser beam, which will be used as a soft X-ray source or an electron source instead of the hot filament of the standard mammographic X-ray tubes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	505-512
Number of pages	8
Journal	Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
Volume	163
Issue number	4-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150701780615
State	Published - Apr 2008
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank Prof. E. Coccia Director of Gran Sasso National Laboratories of INFN and Prof. S. Santucci Director of Physics Department of L’Aquila University for supporting us. This work is financially supported by INFN, LASEX experiment.

Keywords

Electron beams generation
Plasma source
X-ray

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Radiation
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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Experimental layout for the realization of an X-ray plasma source driven by a Nd:YAG laser for biological and medical applications

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