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A practical method to determine the healing and cooling curves of x‐ray tube assemblies
Author(s) -
Bottaro M.,
Moralles M.,
Viana V.,
Donatiello G. L.,
Silva E. P.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.2776672
Subject(s) - x ray tube , tube (container) , x ray , materials science , cooling curve , optics , physics , composite material , electrode , anode , metallurgy , quantum mechanics
A practical method to determine the heating and cooling curves of x‐ray tube assemblies with rotating anode x‐ray tube is proposed. Available procedures to obtain these curves as described in the literature are performed during operation of the equipment, and the precision of the method depends on the knowledge of the total energy applied in the system. In the present work we describe procedures which use a calorimetric system and do not require the operation of the x‐ray equipment. The method was applied successfully to a x‐ray tube assembly that was under test in our laboratory.