X-ray examination system particulary for computed tomography and mammography

US6164820A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Erich Hell · Erlangen, DE
• Detlef Mattern · Erlangen, DE
• Peter Schardt · Simmerath, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 1999
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2000
• Expiry date: May 6, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05G1/02
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

X-ray examination installation, particularly for computed tomography for mammography, has a rotating bulb x-ray tube with a cathode-side drive as its x-ray source, with the tube being oriented so that its anode faces toward the exposure side or actuation side of the system. The distance between the x-ray beam exit window of the tube, and the exposure side or actuation side of the system, thus is made small.