Combined image processing computer for medical diagnostics in the fields of radiography and fluoroscopy

US7680247B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Franz Atzinger · Koblenzer Straße, DE
• Bernhard Geiger · Buckenhof, DE
• Heinz Hornegger · Ebermannstadt, DE
• Clemens Joerger · Forchheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 25, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 16, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H30/40
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A combination radiography and fluoroscopy system includes in one embodiment a radiography radiation generator and radiography radiation receiver, a fluoroscopy radiation generator and fluoroscopy radiation receiver, and a single computer system connected to receive signals from the radiography radiation receiver and fluoroscopy radiation receiver. The single computer system includes signal processing paths for the radiography signal and for the fluoroscopy signal wherein some processes or modules are common between the paths and some are path specific. The path specific processes are preferably connected in parallel. Common controls and a common interface are provided to the monitor connected to the computer system. An alternative uses a single radiation receiver for both radiography and fluoroscopy, along with the single computer system Another alternative provides for separate computers for signal processing of the radiography and fluoroscopy signals, the two computers running substantially identical signal processing programs.