Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Wolfgang Bressel

Heinrich Wallschläger

An imaging tomography apparatus has electronic components provided to operate the tomography apparatus, with at least one of the electronic components exhibiting a power consumption in high power operation that is significantly increased relative to power consumption in normal operation. The imaging tomography apparatus has an energy storage that, in high power operation, supplies the at least one electronic component with additional electrical energy to cover an energy demand due to the difference in power consumption between normal operation and high power operation. The provision of the additional electrical power in high power operation by means of the energy storage allows the modules that participate in the power supply of the at least one electronic component to be realized with lower cost. Such participating modules can be, for example: the mains connection, junction boxes with power switches (safeguards); a transformer, a rectifier, cables, slip ring brushes, slip ring tracks, etc.

Imaging tomography apparatus with built-in energy storage to cover high power operation

In a method for diaphragm regulation in a computed tomography system and a computed tomography system with diaphragm regulation and a multi-line detector, the image detector signals are utilized for generating a setting signal for the diaphragm.

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Erlangen-Buckenhof, Germany

Wolfgang Bressel