A family’s day with
Tungsten
Mother:
After breakfast with the children,
mother leaves the home by car and drives to the hospital. Today she has a CT
(computer tomography) inspection of her spine, where she constantly suffers
from pain. She has these pains for months and is really happy, that she was
able to fix this date at the hospital as their new computer tomograph is always
occupied and it is not easy to get plugged in.
CT(computer tomography)
The computer tomography is a medical
instrument which produces 3-dimensional X-ray images of the area in question.
Several X-ray tubes are contained. In such an X-ray tube we find an electron
gun whose electrode is made of Tungsten and furthermore a rotating anode also
made of Tungsten or a Tungsten-Rhenium alloy. The shielding of the whole
machine is done by Tungsten heavy metal (as a replacement for Lead, which was
used in earlier days).
Tungsten electrode
Fortunately enough, the doctor
indicated to her that nothing serious could be detected and she most probably
only has to train her brace muscles to get rid of the pain.
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