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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Stefan Setzer, Fuerth, DE;
Stephan Sons, Bubenreuth, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/10 (2006.01); H01J 35/06 (2006.01); H05G 1/12 (2006.01); H05G 1/34 (2006.01); H01J 35/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 35/06 (2013.01); H01J 35/08 (2013.01); H05G 1/12 (2013.01); H05G 1/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
An X-ray emitter has an X-ray tube which contains a vacuum envelope in which an emitter and an anode are disposed. The emitter can be heated by an external flat emitter filament supply. Accordingly the emitter is configured as a filament emitter and an interface circuit is arranged between the filament emitter and the flat emitter filament supply. In this manner, a flat-emitter-based X-ray emitter can be replaced by a filament-emitter-based X-ray emitter in an X-ray emitter system without any configuration changes.