System and method for mounting x-ray tube in CT scanner
US6519312B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 18, 2001 |
| Grant date | Feb 11, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 20, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH05G1/02
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system for mounting an x-ray tube to a gantry disk of a CT scanner. The system is designed to make lifting and handling a heavy and cumbersome x-ray tube easier for a person removing or replacing the x-ray tube in a CT scanner. The system includes a harness adapted to be secured to the x-ray tube, at least two elongated rods secured to the harness, and two elongated tracks adapted to be secured to the gantry disk such that the tracks extend generally parallel with a z-axis of the CT scanner. Each track includes a channel for slidingly receiving one of the rods. The present disclosure also provides a method of mounting an x-ray tube in a gantry of a CT scanner. The method includes securing a harness to the x-ray tube, securing elongated rods to the harness such that the rods extend parallel to an axis of the x-ray tube, attaching elongated guides to ends of the rods, inserting distal ends of the guides into channels of elongated tracks in the gantry of the x-ray scanner, and sliding the guides and the rods into the channels of the tracks. Then the guides are removed from the rods, and stops are secured to ends of the tracks to retain the rods within…
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