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Automatic X-ray exposure device incorporating automatic desired measuring field selection

US3995161A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 11, 1975
Grant dateNov 30, 1976
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Expiry dateMar 11, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH05G1/26
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an automatic X-ray exposure device having a measuring member, for example, an ionization chamber comprising a large number of measuring fields, for example, 5 .times. 5. Each measuring field is associated with a capacitor which, during television fluoroscopy, receives the part of the video signal which is derived from the part of the television image in which the dose or the dose power is to be measured in the associated measuring field. Therefore, the capacitors having the highest and the lowest voltage, respectively, have associated therewith the measuring fields having the largest and the smallest, respectively, dose or dose power. Subsequently, the measuring fields whose dose or dose power is situated in a given organ-dependent range between a maximum and a minimum value are determined and actuated for the automatic exposure in a subsequent exposure.

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