“…Pulsed X-ray devices [1], in which high voltage pulses are formed due to a semiconductor opening switch (SOS) [2,3], are promising. Unlike gas dischargers, SOS can create generators with a repetition frequency of high-voltage pulses to a few MHz [4] with a pulse duration of about 10 -9 s and a peak power of 10 8 W. SOS-based pulsed X-ray sources have the following characteristics: the duration of X-ray pulses is about 30 ns, the pulse repetition frequency is up to 5 kHz, the maximum voltage is up to 500 kV, the pulse energy is from 0.2 to 5 J [5]. Typical design of the pulsed X-ray source is given in Fig.…”