TY  - JOUR
T1  - New-Age Pyroelectric Radiographic X-Ray Generators
AU  - Isler, Yalcin
AU  - Egeli, Saadet Sena
AU  - Manalp, Alpman
PY  - 2019
DA  - May
DO  - 10.28978/nesciences.567072
JF  - Natural and Engineering Sciences
JO  - NESciences
PB  - Cemal TURAN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2458-8989
SP  - 125
EP  - 132
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - Medical imaging history has begun with the discovery of X-rays. X-rays that are widely used sincetheir invention in different areas from projectional radiography to computed tomography. Year byyear their technology is improved in many aspects especially for their generation of which tubesare changed to get the most efficient rays. Nowadays different mechanisms are studied to obtainX-rays; one of them is pyroelectricity phenomena. Pyroelectricity is a material’s electricitygeneration from temperature changes. The output spectra of the pyroelectric X-ray generator isquite similar to traditional X-ray tubes, which gives a chance for replacing low-voltage pyroelectricX-ray generators instead of high-voltage conventional X-ray tubes. The results of conductedexperiments and continued studies show us that the use of pyroelectricity for X-ray generation hasgreat advantages. More portable X-ray devices may be available in the near future, and these newdesigns offer safer and easier to operate since they use only 12 Volts instead of kiloVolts. Inconclusion, healthcare technologies require high budges in general, this low-cost alternative mightmake the radiological imaging available for low-income countries. In this paper, the fundamentalsof X-ray generation from pyroelectric material is reviewed, a device on the market, COOL-X, isinvestigated, and both conventional method and pyroelectricity methods are compared.
KW  - Pyroelectricity
KW  - X-ray generation
KW  - Medical radiology
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