| Improvement of Main Console Performance in Medical X-ray Equipment |
| Paper ID : 1028-ICEEM2025 (R1) |
| Authors |
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Mahmoud Nasser Mashaly *1, Kamal M. Okasha2, Amira S. Ashour3 1Communications Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University 2Internal Medicine & Nephrology Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University 3Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University |
| Abstract |
| In healthcare, imaging modalities are widely used to facilitate diagnosis and investigation of various organs within the human body. Such modalities include X-ray, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear imaging, and ultrasound. X-ray imaging is based on the different organs’ absorption of X-ray radiation for generating images that describe hard tissues clearly. For X-ray imaging in the operation room’s sterilized environment, C-arm is used for X-ray imaging. X-ray doses must be calibrated to solve the tradeoff to obtain a minimum level of radiation to reduce their harmful effects on the patient, while providing clear image showing the details of organ is essential for efficient diagnosis. However, any faults that may occur in the X-ray machine affect the acquired image’s quality and/or the generation of X-Ray. In real life, generator’s faults include insert faults, voltage multiplier faults, and signaling boards faults. Accordingly, in this work, a proposed system was designed to support the maintenance engineers for detecting and fixing faults in the generator to ensure the best functionality of the X-ray machine. The experimental results shows an improvement in the main console’s efficiency as the KV feedback efficiency of 98%. |
| Keywords |
| X-ray, C-arm, maintenance, generator, X-ray tube, X-ray console. |
| Status: Accepted |