These features, combined with fault analysis, ensure that failure of any subsystem results in non-operation of the x-ray generator to prevent accidental exposures.
Conventional X-ray generators are most commonly used, because their output can readily be tuned for the application, and because higher power can be deployed relative to other techniques.
Smaller, X-ray generators are often used in laboratories to check the quality of crystals before bringing them to a synchrotron and sometimes to solve a crystal structure.
