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X-ray diagnostic apparatus with C-shaped arms

US6113264A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 9, 1998
Grant dateSep 5, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 9, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B6/466
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A second C-shaped arm 5 is provided along an inner periphery of a first C-shaped arm 4, and a slide operation of the first C-shaped arm 4 is controlled and a slide operation of the second C-shaped arm 5 is controlled along the inner periphery of the first C-shaped arm 4. Accordingly, wide angle setting can be achieved to thus enable various positionings. Further, the second C-shaped arm 5 is controlled to be rotated over 360.degree. along the inner periphery of the first C-shaped arm 4 and an X-ray generator 6 is controlled to irradiate an X-ray intermittently or continuously every predetermined angle, so that three dimensional reconstruction can be accomplished based on image information every angle. As a result, three dimensional radioscopic images, etc. can be formed based on necessary and sufficient image information, whereby the X-ray diagnostic apparatus can be used like an X-ray CT apparatus.

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