Diagnostic radiology installation

US4411012A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Pfeiler · Erlangen, DE
• Edgar Tschunt · Rathsberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 1981
• Grant date: Oct 18, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 13, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B6/4021
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In an exemplary embodiment, there is provided a patient support, a radiation measuring arrangement including a radiation source which generates at least one fan-shaped radiation beam, penetrating the radiography subject, and a radiation receiver which has an array of detectors which are connected to a signal processing circuit, and means for generating relative movement between the patient support and the radiation measuring arrangement in a longitudinal direction of the support, for the generation of a shadow image several radiation directions are generated so that a plurality of intersection points of the radiation paths result within an image exposure region. The signal processing circuit determines the radiation transparency in the patient for every intersection point of a plane parallel to the patient support.