X-ray mammography apparatus having a solid-state radiation detector

US6208708A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Martin Hoheisel · Erlangen, DE
• Juergen Kirsch · Oberpframmern, DE
• Hartmut Sklebitz · Erlangen, DE
• Martin Spahn · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 23, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B6/56
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An X-ray mammography device has an X-ray tube arrangement, a compression mechanism, a subject table, and a large-area solid-state detector made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) which is integrated in a detector cassette that can be inserted into the subject table and that has a first part of at least one transmission path for supplying the operating voltage, and/or the control signals for operating the solid-state detector and/or the readout data, this first said part engaging functionally with a corresponding second part of the transmission path which is attached at the subject table.