X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Source support – Including object support or positioning
Patent
1994-10-14
1996-03-05
Porta, David P.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Source support
Including object support or positioning
378197, A61B 602
Patent
active
054974089
ABSTRACT:
An X-ray examination apparatus, including a patient table which is pivotable about a first axis, a spot film device which is arranged over the table top of the patient table and which is displaceable parallel to the table top by means of a transport device, and also an X-ray source which is coupled to the transport device in order to form an X-ray beam. The use of the X-ray source, either underneath the table top for use with the spot film device, or over the table top for overtable X-ray exposures, positioning is possible in that the X-ray source is pivotable about a second axis which is connected to the transport device and which extends parallel to the first axis.
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Porta David P.
Slobod Jack D.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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