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Image-assisted shockwave therapy installation

US7725166B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Franz Fadler · Hetzles, DE
Rainer Kaltschmidt · Eckental, DE
Markus Lanski · Bad Mergentheim, DE
Walter Polster · Spardorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 17, 2005
Grant date	May 25, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 15, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B17/2255
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An installation for image-assisted shockwave therapy has a C-arm x-ray unit that is orbitally movable around an isocenter, and that carries an x-ray imaging system thereon. The installation also has a shockwave head and a carrier device for the shockwave head that is disposed stationarily relative to the x-ray C-arm. A boom that extends toward the x-ray C-arm is carried by the carrier device, the boom having a free end at which the shockwave head is mounted. The boom is movably guided by the carrier device so that the shockwave head is arbitrarily movable to any position and can be arbitrarily aligned to the isocenter within a minimum range of 180° delimited by the top table position and the bottom table position of a patient table.

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