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A Laser-Driven Micro-source for Simultaneous Bi-modal Radiographic Imaging

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After the investigations presented in the previous chapter, a natural step was to use micro-targets in imaging applications, exploiting their small source size, their large divergence and their unique mixed radiation field composed of ions and X-rays that are geometrically separated from laser and electron beams. The presented experiments were performed in 2016 at the Texas Petawatt laser using commercial tungsten needles [1] as targets.

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    My contribution: I initiated the experiment and wrote the proposal. I planned the experiment and logistics. I executed the setup and experiment as principle investigator, supervising a team of 5 scientists (not counting TPW-staff), and organized the daily shot-plan. I also performed the data analysis and interpretation unless where stated explicitly otherwise.

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    Considering that each proton leaves a track of at least 1 \(\upmu \)m\(^2\) diameter to be observable.

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    By F. Englbrecht (at the chair of medical physics, Prof. Katia Parodi, LMU).

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Ostermayr, T. (2019). A Laser-Driven Micro-source for Simultaneous Bi-modal Radiographic Imaging. In: Relativistically Intense Laser–Microplasma Interactions. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22208-6_6

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