X-ray tube target and method of repairing a damaged x-ray tube target
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsGregory Alan Steinlage, Michael Scott Hebert
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Abstract
An x-ray tube target and method of repairing a damaged x-ray tube target. The x-ray tube target includes an original substrate and a portion of the original substrate that includes a new portion of a substrate and a new target track that is attached to a void in the original substrate. The method includes removal and replacement of damaged materials on used anode targets of x-ray tubes, thereby enabling recovery of used anode targets without the use of expensive and time consuming layer deposition methods. The method also avoids the high costs and long development cycles associated with known repair and refabrication methods for anode targets of x-ray tubes.
Claims10
A method of repairing an x-ray target assembly comprising:
- removing a damaged target track of the x-ray target assembly, wherein the damaged target track is a complete undivided circular ring of material positioned on a top surface of a target substrate;
- removing a damaged portion of the target substrate underlying the damaged target track creating a complete undivided circular void in the target substrate of the x-ray target assembly, wherein the damaged portion of the target substrate is a complete undivided circular ring of material;
- attaching a new target track to a new portion of a target substrate;
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- attaching the new portion of target substrate and the new target track in the complete undivided circular void in the target substrate to create a repaired x-ray target assembly.
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