title: The Munich Compact Light Source: initial performance measures.
abstract: While large-scale synchrotron sources provide a highly brilliant monochromatic X-ray beam, these X-ray sources are expensive in terms of installation and maintenance, and require large amounts of space due to the size of storage rings for GeV electrons. On the other hand, laboratory X-ray tube sources can easily be implemented in laboratories or hospitals with comparatively little cost, but their performance features a lower brilliance and a polychromatic spectrum creates problems with beam hardening artifacts for imaging experiments. Over the last decade, compact synchrotron sources based on inverse Compton scattering have evolved as one of the most promising types of laboratory-scale X-ray sources: they provide a performance and brilliance that lie in between those of large-scale synchrotron sources and X-ray tube sources, with significantly reduced financial and spatial requirements. These sources produce X-rays through the collision of relativistic electrons with infrared laser photons. In this study, an analysis of the performance, such as X-ray flux, source size and spectra, of the first commercially sold compact light source, the Munich Compact Light Source, is presented.
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Elena
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authors: Eggl
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Martin
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authors: Dierolf
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Klaus
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authors: Achterhold
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Christoph
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authors: Jud
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Benedikt
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authors: Günther
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Eva
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authors: Braig
authors: Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 11, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Bernhard
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authors: Gleich
authors: Physik-Department und Institut für Medizintechnik, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors: Franz
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authors: Pfeiffer
keywords: X-ray imaging; compact synchrotron; inverse Compton X-rays