Patent ID: 11950944
Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  H | IPC A  H

Claim 5:
6. The compact x-ray imaging system of claim 1, wherein:
the x-ray source array comprises between, and including, about five and about sixty individually controllable carbon nanotube emitters as electron sources;
the x-ray source array has a unipolar design with an anode voltage between, and including, about 0 kV and 120 kV, and an x-ray tube current of between, and including, about 0.05 mA and 20 mA; and
the spatial distribution of the focal spots is a line, circle, 2D array, or any other two-dimensional (2D1) or three-dimensional (3D1 geometrical configuration.