X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Electronic circuit – With display or signaling
Patent
1988-05-02
1990-11-27
Howell, Janice A.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Electronic circuit
With display or signaling
378 99, H05G 164
Patent
active
049742485
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to an X-Ray system for X-Ray diagnosis and/or treatment. The invention relates preferably to a system for X-Ray diagnosis.
In a known X-Ray diagnosis system (DE-AS 23 11 211) function keys are arranged on a control console for retrieving from a program register preprogrammed reference inputs for an X-Ray generator and a connected X-Ray diagnostic apparatus. The reference values retrieved by a given function key are stored in the storage zone of the program storage to which this button is assigned and when the latter is pressed, such reference inputs are indicated on a display device located on the control console. The display device comprises numeric display fields used to indicate voltage at the X-Ray tube and the mas product, as well as indicator lamps to show any additional entered functions. It is also possible to freely choose the reference inputs for the X-Ray generator and the X-Ray diagnostic system through input members assigned to the display members of the display device as well as to store the chosen input values in appropriate storage zones of the program register by actuating a programming switch and one of the function keys.
It is therefore necessary to label the function keys according to given anatomic organ relations by marking the corresponding "organ text" on the description strip for the function key in question, such texts, owing to a lack of space on such description strips, being renderable only in short form. This could lead to the wrong function key being pressed, the result of which being the entry of an inappropriate or incorrect value for the type of diagnosis being performed. Such inputs, merely on account of their lengths, are often represented in cryptic form at the display device and on the indicator lamps, at the expense of accurate labelling of the body part being diagnosed.
In known X-Ray systems of the preceding type, indicator lamps can also show whether operator or system error has occurred, or whether the X-Ray generator or the attached radiograph apparatus is ready to operate according to the entered radiograph parameter values. In this connection, the reason for system unpreparedness or the error condition, can be determined from error lists, operating instructions or similar material that assist the operator in taking corrective action.
Hence, the invention provides for the development of an X-Ray system for X-Ray diagnosis and/or X-Ray treatment designed to provide clear and intelligible information for ease of operation and preferably also for maintenance and repair.
According to the invention a text storage area forms part of an X-Ray system for X-Ray diagnosis and/or X-Ray treatment while at a control console of the X-Ray system is located a multiplace alphanumeric single or multidigit display device, to which information memorized in a text storage unit can be recalled either automatically or by the actuation of switches, particularly control keys of the control console, at which display device such information is displayed uncoded and in plain language text incorporating longer and if required, more words.
The program register, in particular, comprises stored-related reference values that can be called from the program register by function keys located on the control console, and a text storage area for storing an organ-related word text assigned to a given function key. When the function key is pressed, the -related word text and the related reference values are indicated in the alphanumeric display device according to size, type and/or dimension. By means of a start switch, the corresponding reference data can be input and the related radiography or treatment session initiated. The invention permits reference values retrieved by the function keys to be more fully represented in the alphanumeric display device by using designated organ-related texts (e.g. "Skull observation a.p./p.a.", "Skull, lateral", "Skull a.p.", "Knee joint", "Frick's knee joint", than would be possible on the text strips of the control keys.
The invention include
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Eils Friedrich
Knipping Ernst
Muller Wolfgang
Schneider Eli J.
Taubitz Peter
Gurin Timothy B.
Howell Janice A.
Picker International GmbH
Porta David P.
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