Patent · US Expired

Patient support bodies including reference elements for a tomographic apparatus

US4651335A · kind A · utility

13Cited by

7References

3Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Willi Kalender · Kleinseebach, DE
Guenter Schmitt · Darmstadt, DE
Christoph Suess · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 6, 1985
Grant date	Mar 17, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 6, 2005

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2223/612
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Patient support elements, such as pillows, are disposed on opposite sides of an examination subject lying on a supporting bed in a tomographic apparatus. The patient support bodies include one or more reference elements having known composition and characteristics which are reproduced in the image at a display unit. Standardization of the measured values is thereby achieved in a manner which is independent of the apparatus itself.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.