Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Guenter Eckardt

Heribert Amtmann

Hans Ebersberger

Hans-Joachim Greiner

In an exemplary embodiment, the control circuit for controlling filament current to maintain x-ray tube voltage at a set point value is disabled near the beginning of an x-ray exposure by the cut-off of filament current to provide a falling load characteristic as a function of time. During the cooling of the x-ray tube filament, the x-ray tube voltage is maintained near its set point value by the timed switching of taps of a variable-ratio transformer to change the input voltage to the x-ray tube high voltage transformer, and by the coordinated changing of the loading of the primary circuit of such high voltage transformer, the control circuit for maintaining x-ray tube voltage at the set point value thereafter being placed in control of the filament current for the remainder of the x-ray exposure.

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Nuremberg, Germany

Guenter Eckardt