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Properties
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Overview
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Wavelength
- Ultraviolet
- Gamma rays Gamma ray
- Nanometers Nanometre
- Picometers Picometre
- Frequencies Frequency
- Exahertz Hertz
- EV Electronvolt
- KeV
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Wilhelm Röntgen
- Radiography
- Medical diagnostics
- Broken bones Bone fracture
- Materials science
- Chemical elements
- Ionizing radiation
- DNA
- Radiation sickness
History
- Radiation
- Discharge tubes Discharge tube
- Cathode rays Cathode ray
- Electron
- Crookes tubes Crookes tube
- Ionization
- DC Direct current
- Voltage
- Kilovolts Kilovolt
- Cathode
- Anode
- William Morgan William Morgan (actuary)
- Royal Society of London
- Electric current
- Humphry Davy
- Michael Faraday
- Philipp Lenard
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Electromagnetic theory of light
- William Jennings William Nicholson Jennings
- University of Pennsylvania
- Ludwig Zehnder
- Stanford University
- Fernando Sanford
- January 6, 1893 1893
- Physical Review
- San Francisco Examiner
- Nikola Tesla
- Radiant energy
- Würzburg
Energy ranges
- Photon energies Photon energy
- Medical radiography
- Airport security
- Metonymically Metonymy
- Radiographic
- Attenuation length
- Deexcitation Electron excitation
- Decay Radioactive decay
- Nuclei Atomic nucleus
- Photon
- Radioactive
- Radiotherapy
- MeV
Properties
- Molecular bonds Molecular bond
- Tissue Tissue (biology)
- Radiation dose
- Radiation-induced cancer
- Cancer treatment Oncology
- Malignant
- Cells Cell (biology)
- X-ray spectroscopy
- Absorbed Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
- Scattered Scattering
- Image Imaging science
- Industrial radiography
- Industrial CT scanning
- Small animal CT Preclinical imaging
- Penetration depth
- Orders of magnitude
- Transmission Transmittance
- Contrast Contrast (vision)
- Microscope
- X-ray microscopy
- Atoms Atom
- Crystals Crystal
Interaction with matter
- Photoabsorption Photoelectric effect
- Compton scattering
- Rayleigh scattering
- Atomic number
- Absorption edges
- Absorption coefficients Absorption coefficient
- Calcium
- Auger electron
- Auger electron spectroscopy
- Inelastic scattering
- High-energy X-rays
- Klein–Nishina formula
- Conservation of energy
- Momentum Conservation of momentum
- Elastic scattering
Production
- Tungsten
- Rhenium
- Molybdenum
- Cobalt
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- Characteristic X-ray
- Electron shell
- Emission spectrum
- Bremsstrahlung
- Continuous spectrum
- Electric power
- Synchrotron radiation
- Particle accelerators Particle accelerator
- Collimation
- Linear polarization
- Triboelectric charging Triboelectric effect
- Triboluminescence
- Particle-induced X-ray emission
- Cross section Cross section (physics)
- Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes Terrestrial gamma-ray flash
- Streamers Streamer discharge
- Run-away electrons Runaway electrons
Detectors
- Photographic film
- Digital Digital data
- Image plates Image plate
- Flat panel detectors
- Radiation protection
- Ionization chambers Ionization chamber
- Dosimeters
- Spectra Energy spectrum
- Spectrometers Spectrometer
- X-ray diffraction
- Hybrid photon counting detectors Hybrid pixel detector
Medical uses
- Medical imaging
- Projectional radiography
- Pathology
- Skeletal system Bone
- Soft tissue
- Chest X-ray Chest radiograph
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary edema
- Abdominal x-ray
- Bowel (or intestinal) obstruction Bowel obstruction
- Ascites
- Gallstones Gallstone
- Radiopaque Radiodensity
- Kidney stones Kidney stone
- Muscle
- Implant Implant (medicine)
- Dental radiography
- Cavities Dental caries
- X-ray filter
- Cardiovascular system
- Angiography
- Contrast agent Radiocontrast agent
- Radiologist Radiology
- Computed tomography
- Tomographic images Tomography
- Three-dimensional Three-dimensional space
- Radiation therapists Radiation therapist
- X-ray image intensifier
- CCD Charge-coupled device
- Video camera
Adverse effects
Other uses
- Fiber diffraction
- Rosalind Franklin
- Double helical Double helix
- X-ray astronomy
- Astronomy
- X-ray fluorescence
- Fluoresces Fluorescence
- Surface science
- Welds Welding
- Radiography of cultural objects
- Underdrawing
- Pentimenti
- Pigments Pigment
- Lead white
- Automated X-ray inspection
- Industrial CT
- Border control
- Domestic police departments NYPD X-ray vans
- Fine art photography
- Stane Jagodič
- Peter Dazeley
- Hair removal
- Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes Shoe-fitting fluoroscope
- Roentgen stereophotogrammetry
- Thermonuclear weapon
- Radiation implosion
Visibility
Units of measure and exposure
- Coulomb
- SI Systeme International
- Roentgen Roentgen (unit)
- Electrostatic unit
- Charge Electric charge
- Absorbed dose
- Gray Gray (unit)
- Joule
- Rad Rad (unit)
- Equivalent dose
- Roentgen equivalent man
- Sievert
- Effective dose Effective dose (radiation)
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Nodes323
Edges322
Triples306
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006192
Components1
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X-ray
Top relations
related to External links · 35
X-ray → April, Are Not Harmful, Bibcode, Bibnum Education, Deed, Dose-Response, Early Bremsstrahlung Articles, English, French, Harrison, Index, Ion X-Ray, January, July, La, Nature, Navid Ehsani, New Kind, Niousha, Oakley
related to Hazards discovered · 32
X-ray → American X-ray, August, Before, California, Columbia College, Daniel, Dudley, Dudley's, Edison's, Electrical Review, Elihu Thomson, Elizabeth Fleischman, Hawks, In August, In February, It, Many, Morton, Nikola Tesla, On
related to Advances in radiology · 18
X-ray → Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Along, Birmingham, December Physical-Medical Society, England, Europe, February, Hall-Edwards, January, John Hall-Edwards, News, North America, On, Röntgen, Scottish, The, Through February, X-rays
related to Discovery by Röntgen · 18
X-ray → Chi, Chi-rays, Crookes, December, German, Greek, He, Lenard, November, On, Röntgen, Some, There, This, Two, Wilhelm Röntgen, Würzburg's Physical-Medical Society, X-rays
related to Visibility · 14
X-ray → Brandes, Cherenkov, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, It, Later, Other, Röntgen, Röntgen's, The, Though X-rays, Upon, When, While, X-rays
has effect · 12
X-ray → Agency, Cancer, CT, Diagnostic X-rays, Experimental, However, It, Research, The, United States, World Health Organization's International, X-rays
related to Pre-Röntgen observations and research · 12
X-ray → Crookes, DC, Early, Humphry Davy, In, London, Michael Faraday, Royal Society, The, This, William Morgan, X-rays
see also · 12
X-ray → Advanced X-ray, Backscatter X-ray, Explorer, Fictional, Healthcare, Ionizing, Medical, NASA X-ray, Radiation, Surface, Synchrotron, Welding
related to 20th century and beyond · 11
X-ray → An, Crookes, Crookes X-ray, Exposure, Ruhmkorff, Since, The, To, While, Workshops, X-rays
related to Gamma rays · 11
X-ray → Another, For, However, MeV, Occasionally, One, Some, There, This, Thus, X-rays
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Important terminology
x-rays radiation used tube energy medical imaging photon exposure röntgen use image rays also 1896 cancer tubes needed discovery electrons
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-ray | is a | form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays | 0.90 | text |
| construction materials | instance of | who named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation.X-rays can penetrate many solid substances | 0.80 | text |
| living tissue | instance of | who named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation.X-rays can penetrate many solid substances | 0.80 | text |
| so X-ray radiography is widely used in medical diagnostics | instance of | who named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation.X-rays can penetrate many solid substances | 0.80 | text |
| Science dedicating as many as 23 articles to it in that year alone | instance of | with a magazine | 0.80 | text |
| hands | instance of | and suitable for thin body parts | 0.80 | text |
| arms | instance of | and suitable for thin body parts | 0.80 | text |
| rotational CT scanners | instance of | further allowing higher quantity X-ray output for use in high-powered applications | 0.80 | text |
| those used for radiography were originally based on photographic plates | instance of | Imaging detectors | 0.80 | text |
| later photographic film | instance of | Imaging detectors | 0.80 | text |
| but are now mostly replaced by various digital detector types such as image plates | instance of | Imaging detectors | 0.80 | text |
| flat panel detectors | instance of | Imaging detectors | 0.80 | text |
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