EP0056552A2 - Röntgenröhre mit einem universellen Sekundärstrahlbegrenzer - Google Patents

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EP0056552A2
EP0056552A2 EP81402080A EP81402080A EP0056552A2 EP 0056552 A2 EP0056552 A2 EP 0056552A2 EP 81402080 A EP81402080 A EP 81402080A EP 81402080 A EP81402080 A EP 81402080A EP 0056552 A2 EP0056552 A2 EP 0056552A2
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J35/00—X-ray tubes
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    • H01J35/16—Vessels; Containers; Shields associated therewith
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    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21K—HANDLING OF PARTICLES OR IONISING RADIATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; IRRADIATION DEVICES; GAMMA RAY OR X-RAY MICROSCOPES
    • G21K1/00—Arrangements for handling particles or ionising radiation, e.g. focusing or moderating
    • G21K1/02—Arrangements for handling particles or ionising radiation, e.g. focusing or moderating using diaphragms, collimators

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  • the present invention relates to a universal secondary radiation limiter in an X-ray tube. It finds its application both in classical radiology and in radiotherapy.
  • a suitable target When a suitable target is bombarded by a fast flow of electrons, it emits a certain flow of photons in a spectral band related to the nature and the geometry of the target and related to the speed of the electrons.
  • Such generating devices are called X-ray tubes. They emit more particularly in the X-ray or ⁇ -band. It is also possible to use secondary photonic emissions. In all cases, the focal point is the material area emitting radiation.
  • a ray belonging to the primary ray can be defined as a direct ray which is carried by a straight line cutting the central axis of the solid angle of the useful radiation at a point common to all the primary rays on the central axis of the primary radiation.
  • a secondary ray is carried by any straight line coming from the transmitting focus. This radiation, often of weak energy relati the primary radiation, generates poor images in Radiology and parasitic irradiation causes in Radiotherapy. It should therefore be deleted as completely as possible.
  • the present invention proposes placing a secondary radiation limiter in the X-ray tube in the immediate vicinity of the emitting focus.
  • the collimators whose cross section is in the form of a grid or a grid, leave a trace by absorbing primary radiation in the field of the useful beam.
  • the present invention to remedy these disadvantages of the prior art, is a secondary radiation limiter of simple conical shape, one end of which is fixed to the window of exit from the tube and the other near the source of the radiation.
  • Secondary radiation may not be emitted only from the home. Indeed, the focus is the area bombarded by the electrons incident on the anode. A certain amount of electrons is emitted from the hearth. These electrons are called secondary electrons. They are expelled from the hearth with a certain kinetic energy and undergo an attraction due to the anode potential. They therefore fall on it outside the focus, with an energy such that they also produce a secondary corn radiation outside the focus, that is to say extrafocal.
  • the exemplary embodiments are more particularly drawn from. Radiology but also find their application in Radiotherapy.
  • the X-ray tube shown has a rotating anode 1 included in a sealed or empty envelope 2. It also includes inside the envelope 2, a photon exciter which is here an electron gun not shown. The flow of electrons strikes the rotating anode 1, at the focal point 4 emitting the flow of photons.
  • the secondary radiation limiter 5 comprises a divergent conical envelope 6 of axis of symmetry aligned with the axis 7 of the useful field selected. This limiter 5 has an inlet opening 8 for the photon flux and an outlet opening 9 for the useful radiation.
  • the outlet opening is mechanically linked to the outlet window 10 of the tube.
  • This may include an additional filtration window 11 made of a thin sheet of aluminum or beryllium. This additional filtration has a cumulative effect with the limiter, by absorbing less energetic rays therefore by further depleting the rate of secondary radiation relative to the useful radiation.
  • the mechanical connection means 12 of the outlet opening 9 to the outlet window 10, here comprise a ring 13 brazed or welded to a fold in the wall of the envelope 2.
  • the inlet opening 8 is placed in the immediate vicinity of the emitting focus 4 of the photon flux.
  • the projection of the opening 8 - on the anode 1 can contain or be contained by the surface of the hearth 4. This characteristic can make it possible to reduce the extent of the emitting hearth or to select, by construction of the tube, an area good broadcast.
  • the limiter To be absorbing X photons, the limiter must be made of a material based on a chemical element with a high atomic number. The material must be electrically insulating so as not to induce potential differences with the anode and therefore modify the field lines in the tube. It must also be refractory, since it is placed near the hearth which is a very hot source.
  • the limiter according to the invention consists of a material based on uranium, hafnium or thorium which meet the three qualities mentioned. ''
  • the material can be an oxide of the three chemical elements mentioned above. It can also consist of a substrate covered with such oxides.
  • the mechanical connection means comprise a ring 13 made of an alloy such as for example the Dilver P or the Vacrion 10 in the case of an envelope made of stainless steel or copper.
  • FIG. 2 a focal point emitting photons AB is shown in the half-space to the right of the line carrying the focal point AB.
  • the mediating line X is the axis of symmetry of the figure.
  • a schematic representation of a secondary radiation limiter CDEF is shown, the inlet and outlet openings of which are CD and EF respectively.
  • the primary radiation is Indu in the space limited by the lines GY and GZ, the point G being a point of the axis X of symmetry.
  • a primary radius is therefore defined as a line of this space passing through G.
  • the lines GY and GZ are the lines which carry the sides CE and DF of the limiter. They. intercept the edges A and B of the hearth AB in the figure but they can also cut the interior of the hearth by selecting a fraction.
  • the secondary radiation comprises all the rays carried by the straight lines coming from the focal point AB and which do not pass through the point G. If the walls CE and DF are absorbing the secondary radiation, the two zones of the space included between the straight lines BC .and BE and the wall CE. On the one hand, and the lines AD and AF and the wall DF on the other hand, are empty of any secondary radiation. On the other hand, the zones of the space comprised between the lines BA and BC on the one hand and the lines AB and AD on the other hand each comprise secondary radiation. To reduce it, the CD inlet opening of the CDEF limiter should be brought closer to the AB hearth.
  • the extrafocal X-ray radiation is also considerably reduced.
  • an electron is re-emitted on the curve e. It hits the target at point H, outside the focus.
  • the rays of the sector of the space between the HD and HF rays emitted by the point H, called extrafocal rays are intercepted and absorbed by the wall DF of the limiter.
  • the approximation of the entry face CD of the focal point AB, as well as the enlargement of the limiter on the axis GX make it possible to reduce the share of extrafocal radiation in the useful X-ray beam.
  • FIG. 3 a tube with a fixed well anode has been shown.
  • the tube comprises a cathode 15 provided with a filament 16 and a concentrator 17.
  • An electron beam 18 penetrates into the well 19 of a fixed anode 20.
  • This anode comprises a target 21. emitting photons and is pierced by a window 22 for the exit of radiation.
  • a limiter 23 according to the invention is arranged in a neck 24 of the casing 14 of the tube. Its inlet opening is arranged opposite the window 22 of the fixed anode 20 and its outlet opening is linked as previously indicated to the radiation outlet window 25 with or without an additional filter.
  • the well 19 of the anode also participates in the reduction of the secondary radiation. It may therefore be useful to cover the well 19 externally with a material as previously described to absorb the secondary radiation.
  • An X-ray tube provided with such a secondary radiation limiter has the advantage of bringing the emitting focus closer to the irradiated object without the intermediary of an external collimation chamber as described in the prior art.
  • the reduction in secondary radiation is considerably improved by bringing the input face of the limiter closer to the emitting focus.
  • the emitting focal point can be constituted by an electron target but also by a target bombarded by incident photons which by Compton effect induce a new flux of photons in an improved spectral band according to a given emission diagram.
  • the limiter according to the invention has been described of the divergent type. He . it is possible to realize it in the form of a cone converging the opening inlet then being larger than the outlet opening without the main characters of the invention being changed.
  • the limiter according to the invention can therefore be adapted to any type of small focal tube, thus being a universal limiter of secondary radiation.

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EP81402080A 1981-01-16 1981-12-28 Röntgenröhre mit einem universellen Sekundärstrahlbegrenzer Expired - Lifetime EP0056552B2 (de)

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FR8100775A FR2498375A1 (fr) 1981-01-16 1981-01-16 Limiteur universel de rayonnement secondaire dans un tube radiogene et tube radiogene comportant un tel limiteur
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