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- A glass capillary with a nickel coating is suggested for use as soft-x-ray fiber optics in medical fields.
- Based on theoretical calculations, nickel was selected for its efficiency with conventional x-ray tube radiation.
- Laboratory results showed that a nickel-coated capillary of specific dimensions had a transmission efficiency of 10%, which is about twice that of a non-coated glass capillary.
Article Abstract
A glass capillary with an inner metal coating is proposed to be used as soft-x-ray fiber optics in medical applications. Based on the results of theoretical calculations, nickel was chosen as the coating material for x rays radiated from a conventional x-ray tube. A nickel-coated capillary was fabricated by electroless deposition, and focusing and collimating effects were observed from measurements of the transmission efficiency of soft x rays. The transmission of a nickel-coated capillary with an inner diameter of 0.53 mm and a length of 300 mm was 10%, which is approximately double that of an uncoated glass capillary.
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