Cleaning system of a medical imaging facility

US12178931B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Healthineers AG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Beck · Catonsville, US
• Stefanie Gügel-Wild · Langensendelbach, DE
• Marianne Köferl · Fichtelberg, DE
• Bernd Maciejewski · Markt Erlbach, DE
• Michael Schneider · Angelbachtal, DE
• Annette Stein · Erlangen, DE
• Philipp Höcht · Bayreuth, DE
• Sushant Mainali · East Hagbourne, GB
• Carina Moratz · Altdorf, DE
• Tim Richter · Shanghai, CN
• Martin Seifert · West Simsbury, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 2021
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2024
• Expiry date: May 19, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N2013/0081
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Method for the operation of a cleaning system of a medical imaging facility, wherein the imaging facility has an outer useful surface exposed to contaminating effects of patients and/or operators. During a utilization phase for an examination procedure of a patient, sensor data of a sensor arrangement detecting at least a portion of the useful surface is acquired and by evaluation of the sensor data, a surface map having potentially contaminated regions of the useful surface is determined. During a cleaning phase following the utilization phase, cleaning information of the potentially contaminated regions are output to a cleaner and/or used for actuation of at least one cleaning apparatus of the imaging facility for targeted cleaning of the potentially contaminated regions.