Patent · US Expired

C-arm X-ray system with adjustable detector positioning

US6811313B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Rainer Graumann · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Oliver Schuetz · Erlangen, DE
Norbert Strobel · Heroldsbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 24, 2002
Grant date	Nov 2, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 23, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B6/4405
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A C-arm X-ray system has a C-arm that carries an X-ray source and a detector opposite one another at its ends and that can be swiveled around the subject in multiple axes. The detector is mounted so as to be rotatable around the proceeding axis therefrom to the X-ray source and/or to be displaceable parallel to the detector surface and/or along a arcuate path.

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