Irradiating device with an electronic accelerator

US4058730A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Meyer · Leverkusen, DE
• Wolf-Eberhard Schiegl
• Leonhard Taumann · Lafayette, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 1976
• Grant date: Nov 15, 1977
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N5/1048
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An irradiating device has an electronic accelerator, an actuating and monitoring device, means for expanding and homogenizing the electronic ray with respect to electron density and a diaphragm for side limiting the electronic beam. The invention is particularly characterized by the provision of a measuring device containing several radiation detectors connected to the actuating and monitoring device for increasing the operational safety of the irradiating device and located in the electronic beam in the ray direction behind the means for expanding and homogenizing the electronic beam. At least the first of these radiation detectors is located in the angular space range of the unscattered electronic ray.