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US 12,178,622 B2Granted
Medical image capturing apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsTakashi Tajima, Masakazu Fukuyo, Sho Shimizukawa, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Hisatsugu Horiuchi, Naoyuki Nishino
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Abstract
A CT apparatus includes a radiation source that emits radiation, a radiation detector that detects the radiation, an annular frame to which the radiation source and the radiation detector are attached and in which a subject is positioned in a bore, and three columns that hold the frame to be movable up and down in a vertical direction.
Claims14
A medical image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an x-ray radiation source that emits x-ray radiation;
- an x-ray detector that detects the x-ray radiation,
- an annular frame to which the x-ray radiation source and the x-ray radiation detector are attached and in which a subject is positioned in a bore;
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- three or more columns that hold the frame to be movable up and down in a vertical direction, and that allow the subject in the bore to be directly visually recognized from an outside between any two columns;
- wherein at least one of the three or more columns has an opening formed therein for allowing the subject to be visually recognized from an outside through the opening.
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