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Imaging device and method for operating an imaging device

US8538506B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Gabriel Haras · Engelskirchen, DE
Ute Feuerlein · Erlangen, DE
Matthias Niethammer · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 19, 2007
Grant date	Sep 17, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 2, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG16H40/63
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An imaging device is disclosed for generating successive tomograms of an object. In at least one embodiment, the imaging device includes a radiation source, a detector, a positioning unit and a control unit for controlling the positioning unit and for evaluating the recorded data of the detector. In at least one embodiment, it is provided that the control unit is set up for matching a contrast medium protocol, in which parameters for contrast medium administration are stored, provided for examinations in a contrast medium device, to a scan protocol provided for the examination, in which operating parameters for generating successive tomograms are stored, for preventing unnecessary administration phases. This provides for a contrast medium examination with the least possible contrast medium administration.

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