Patent · US Expired

Modular X-ray radiator system

US6212257A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

Filing date	May 6, 1999
Grant date	Apr 3, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 6, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01J35/24
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A modular X-ray radiator system includes at least one base X-ray radiator with a rotating bulb tube with a cathode that emits an electron beam, an anode, and an arrangement for variably deflecting the electron beam and for adjustment of the size of the focal spot of the electron beam on the anode, and a number of drive mechanisms of varying drive powers which can be selectively attached to one of the base X-ray radiators for the rotating of the rotating bulb tube.

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