How X-rays are produced? __ Educational World

    X-rays are commonly produced in X-rays tubes by accelerating electrons through a potential difference(a voltage drop) and directing them onto a target material(i.e. tungsten).

As these incoming electrons hit material they slow down and release X-rays(breaking radiation or bremsstrahlung). An incoming electron may also collide with an atom in the target, kicking out an electron and leaving a vacancy in one of he atom's electronic shell. Another electron may fill up this vacancy of electron and in this way an X-ray photon of specific energy is released(a characteristic of X-ray).

    A Computerized tomography(CT) scanner is a particular type of X-ray machine in which the X-ray tube produces a beam in the shape of a fan and moves around the patient in circle. The X-rays are detected electronically and computer uses he information to reconstruct an image of the region of body exposed.

    X-rays can also be produced by a synchrotron-a device that accelerate electron in an evacuated ring (often several tens of meters in diameter), steering them with magnet. Manipulating the electron beam in a controlled way with magnet can produce intense beam of X-rays. Synchrotron facilities are used for research purposes.