General Electric Company

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Pierre Fernand Habig

Thomas Robert Raber

Vasile Bogdan Neculaes

Andrew Thomas Cross

Ashraf Said Atalla

Jean-Marie Penato

Nidhishri Tapadia

Frédéric Dahan

Alexander Kagan

Patrick Petit

A portable neutron generator is provided that does not utilize liquid cooling. The portable neutron generator includes a vacuum chamber housing defining a vacuum chamber and an ion beam inlet. The portable neutron generator also includes a rotating target positioned within the vacuum chamber. The ion beam inlet is oriented to receive ions such that the ions impinge upon the rotating target to cause neutrons to be emitted. The rotating target comprises a copper alloy. The portable neutron generator also includes a motor core positioned within the vacuum chamber and coupled to the rotating target. A motor stator is electromagnetically coupled with the motor core. The motor core is configured to rotate the rotating target at greater than 200 Hz during operation.

Neutron generator with a rotating target in a vacuum chamber

An X-ray emission device having an X-ray tube and a protective enclosure filled with an electrically insulating liquid in which the X-ray tube is placed. The device includes at least one chamber connected to the protective enclosure that traps and purges gas bubbles contained or dissolved in the liquid filling the protective enclosure.

Method and device for X-ray emission with gas trapping

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Rambouillet, France

Pierre Fernand Habig