Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Seimens Aktiengesellschaft

Thomas Deutscher

Matthias Seufert

Wolfgang Kutschera

Karin Söldner

For reducing of the weight of leakage x-ray radiation shielding for a rotary piston x-ray tube that rotates in a cooling medium in a radiator housing of an x-ray radiator, the rotary piston x-ray tube having a rotary anode and a cathode fixedly connected with the vacuum housing thereof, the vacuum housing has at least one first region of a total shielding and the radiator housing has at least a second region of the total shielding. Only the respective regions of the vacuum housing and the radiator housing has that are irradiated by the leakage x-ray radiation are provided with shielding.

Leakage radiation shielding arrangement for a rotary piston x-ray radiator

An x-ray apparatus that accepts an x-ray radiator therein has shielding for the x-ray leakage radiation originating from the x-ray radiator that is an Integral component of (built into) the x-ray apparatus. An x-ray radiator with an x-ray tube and a housing in which the x-ray tube is contained is composed only of materials that are not suitable for absorption of x-rays.

X-ray apparatus with radiation shielding that accepts an unshielded x-ray radiator therein

In a method for manufacturing a radiation detector and a radiation detector of a computed tomography apparatus manufactured in accordance therewith, a grid-like structure is introduced into a luminophore layer. It is thus possible to simultaneously scan a number of slices during a computed tomography examination of a subject.

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Lauf-Simonshofen, Germany

Thomas Deutscher