Review of development of high energy pulsed X-ray accelerators for flash radiography

Hao Wei; Fengju Sun; Aici Qiu; Hailiang Yang; Jiahui Yin; Pengfei Zhang; Xiaofeng Jiang; Zhiguo Wang

doi:10.11884/HPLPB202234.210444

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