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US 12,408,935 B2Granted
Shock wave device having a source self aligning with an X-ray device
AssigneeStorz Medical AG
InventorsRafael Storz, Ernst Marlinghaus, Georg Görner, Arvid Kühl, Felix Gremlich
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Abstract
A shock wave and/or ultrasound therapy system includes an ultra-sound and/or shockwave source suspended on a hexapod drive and an X-ray system. A system controller configured to generate control signals for the hexapod drive to align the ultrasound and/or shockwave source with the X-ray system based on the displacement of a known object between two images taken at different tilt angles of the X-ray system.
Claims10
A device comprising:
- a source configured to generate at least one of shockwaves and ultrasound, and
- a base,
- wherein the source is suspended on a hexapod drive, the hexapod drive including six linear actuators,
- wherein the six linear actuators are attached in pairs to three mounting positions at the base and in pairs to three mounting positions at the source,
- wherein:
- a first end of every other linear actuator of the six linear actuators is attached to a different of the three mounting positions at the base, and
- a second end of said every other linear actuator of the six linear actuators is attached to a different of the three mounting positions at the source.
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