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Patent Inventor Names
Andrew P. Tybinkowski0
Lidia Nemirovsky0
Eric M. Bailey0
Date of Patent
July 8, 2008
0Patent Application Number
113992830
Date Filed
April 6, 2006
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Patent abstract
A system for cooling an X-ray tube in a CT machine comprising a heat sink for drawing heat away from the X-ray tube and a collimator connected to the heat sink and adapted to collimate the X-rays emitted by the X-ray tube and “focus” those X-rays on an X-ray detector, the heat sink body being formed out of the same material as the emitter of the X-ray tube, such that the emitter opening of the X-ray tube will remain aligned with both the heat sink window and the collimator opening even when the emitter of the X-ray tube undergoes thermal expansion.
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