BREMSSTRAHLUNG
- Also known as white x-rays or white radiation
- Comes from a German word (bremsen “to brake” and Strahlung “radiation”) which means “braking radiation” or “slowing down radiation”.
- They are high energy x-rays
- Responsible for the production of an image in the radiograph
- Useful radiation as compared to characteristic x-rays
- Incident electron penetrates the shell up to the nuclear space, it decelerates and changes velocity then produces EMR (electromagnetic radiation) called Bremsstrahlung
