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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
George Theodore Dalakos, Schenectady, NY (US);
Mark Alan Frontera, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Vance Scott Robinson, Schenectady, NY (US);
William Robert Ross, Rotterdam, NY (US);
Xi Zhang, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, a multi-layer X-ray source target is provided having two or more layers of target material at different depths and different thicknesses. In one such embodiment the X-ray generating layers increase in thickness in relationship to their depth relative to the electron beam facing surface of the source target, such that X-ray generating layer further from this surface are thick than X-ray generating layers closer to the electron beam facing surface.