A Simple Moving-Anode X-Ray Tube

Abstract

THERE have now been described a number of moving-anode X-ray tubes, including the mercury-sealed type developed in this Laboratory^1–4, and their high performance may be regarded as established. They are, however, mostly expensive and not easy to build, and for the future welfare of X-ray structure analysis, particularly in the fibre and protein fields, something is needed for workers with modest resources—something that does not aim at the power that can be realized with a rotating anode, yet is considerably better than the stationary-anode tubes commonly in use. We have designed and constructed such a simple, demountable and inexpensive tube as follows.