X-ray device with a scattered ray protection device

US7744278B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Kerstin Barkow · Bad Neustadt an der Saale, DE
• Franz Beimler · Idar-Oberstein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 4, 2005
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2010
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B6/107
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An x-ray device is provided. The x-ray device includes an x-ray emitter, an image receiver arranged in a radiation direction at a distance from the x-ray emitter, a patient support disposed between the x-ray emitter and the image receiver, a relative position of the x-ray emitter and the image receiver being adjustable with respect to the patient support in at least one spatial direction, and a scattered ray protection device, which can be fixed in a fixed relative position with respect to the image receiver and/or the x-ray emitter as a reference object using a coupling unit the scattered ray protection device being entrained with the reference object when the reference object is adjusted with respect to the patient support.