Patent · US Expired

C-arm x-ray device

US7048440B2 · kind B2 · utility

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2References

9Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Rainer Graumann · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Udo Heinze · Erlangen, DE
Peter Nögel · Effeltrich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 11, 2004
Grant date	May 23, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 25, 2024

Classification

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

Abstract

The invention concerns a C-arm x-ray device with a non-isocentric C-arm on which an x-ray source is positioned and that can be orbitally or angularly rotated, whereby the C-arm x-ray device comprises a device fashioned to horizontally adjust the C-arm (which enables an adjustment of the C-arm within the plane of the C-arm) and a device fashioned to vertically adjust the C-arm, where the horizontal adjustment device and the vertical adjustment device are fashioned such that they can automatically move the central x-ray beam of the x-ray source back into the isocenter, given an orbital or angulatory rotation of the C-arm via the horizontal and vertical adjustment device. An appertaining method is also provided.

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