Medical diagnostics installation

US5394871A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Roland Sauer · Nuremberg, DE
• Rudolf Brendl · Erlangen, DE
• Wolfgang Jaeger · Göppingen, DE
• Wolfgang Zerl · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Alois Noettling · Pottenstein, DE
• Hans-Peter Rieger · Neckarsulm, DE
• Gerd Wessels · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 1993
• Grant date: Mar 7, 1995
• Expiry date: Jun 23, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05G1/30
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical diagnostics installation comprises components for portraying an examination region on a monitor and includes an operating unit which is spatially spaced from the monitor and has a control unit, either a sensor field, a joystick or a key field, for acting on a data processor for controlling the components. The data processor includes a data store that contains data corresponding to different operating menus, and these menus are capable of being called in via the operating unit and are displayed on the monitor. At least one operating condition of the medical diagnostics installation can be produced by the operating unit and the operating menus correspond to the operating conditions being displayed on the monitor are only the operating functions required for this operating condition. The operating functions are controllable via a mark or cursor which is controlled by either the sensor field, joystick or key field.