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Apparatus for treatment with acoustic waves

US5944663A · kind A · utility

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52Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Rainer Kuth · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Siegfried Schneider · Erlangen, DE
Ulrich Schätzle · Königsee, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 9, 1997
Grant date	Aug 31, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 9, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2034/2055
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In an apparatus for treatment of a subject with acoustic waves, a spatial allocation, required for the treatment of the patient and a source of acoustic waves relative to each other is effected by a surgical work station using a three-dimensional navigation system on the basis of a number of images of a region to be treated, which are obtained independently of the treatment apparatus, in different coordinate systems, and are displayed on a display screen of the work station.

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