ABSTRACT
For diagnostic medical applications, such as an X-ray of your foot to see if any bones are broken, we’d like to consistently produce high-energy photons on demand-a flip of the switch to provide the same energy and intensity every time would be great. It is also desirable for our photon generator to be safe and affordable. The only source that satisfies all these requirements is a particle accelerator. A conventional X-ray tube is a small particle accelerator (Section 9.4). Let’s see how it works.
