X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Source support – Including object support or positioning
Patent
1996-03-29
2000-02-22
Porta, David P.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Source support
Including object support or positioning
378209, 378177, A61B 600
Patent
active
060272473
ABSTRACT:
A X-ray photographing apparatus is suitable for use for a doctor to take X-ray photographing while performing medical treatment, and is capable of positioning a patient at a height at which operations are made ease in accordance with contents of medical treatment. The X-ray photographing apparatus comprises a table of a bed, on which a person to be inspected is placed, a table support device having a function for tilting the table about an axis in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the bed and vertically moving the bed, a X-ray irradiation device located above the person to be inspected on the bed and spaced a distance from a top side of the table, and a X-ray detection device located below the table, the support device having a horizontal support for supporting the bed from sides of the bed and a vertical support mechanism for vertically moving the horizontal support, and the vertical support mechanism being arranged on one side of the bed and offset toward an end of the bed from a center in the longitudinal direction of the bed, whereby a doctor is not interfered with in smoothly moving and performing medical treatment around a portion of the bed where the upper half of the body of the person to be inspected is placed, and a space for installing other medical treatment tools can be secured.
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Hara Akio
Kamimura Seiji
Motoshima Michiaki
Ohnuma Mitsuru
Saito Hayato
Hitachi Medical Corporation
Porta David P.
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