Patent ID: 7286642

Claim:
An X-ray tube control apparatus which remotely controls an X-ray tube, comprising: first storage means which stores a plurality of warming-up programs for respectively increasing a tube voltage and a tube current of said X-ray tube to a maximum tube voltage value and a maximum tube current value corresponding thereto according to a process corresponding to a downtime during which said X-ray tube has not operated when said X-ray tube starts operating, according to the maximum tube voltage values; first extraction means which extracts one from said plurality of warming-up programs stored in said first storage means which corresponds to the maximum tube voltage value after being changed at that time the maximum tube voltage value of said X-ray tube is changed; and first rewriting means which rewrites a warming-up program, stored in a memory section in a control apparatus that controls an operation of said X-ray tube, with said warming-up program extracted by said first extraction means via a telecommunications line.