Hygiene cover for a medical imaging device
AssigneesSiemens Healthineers AG, DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc., Sirona Dental Systems GmbH
InventorsLars Lauer, Andreas Greiser, Stephan Biber, Gunnar Krüger, Daniel Rinck, Carmel Hayes, Kim Burzan, Johannes Ulrici
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a hygiene cover for preventing a contamination of a target surface of a medical imaging device. The hygiene cover is configured for reversibly attaching to the target surface of the medical imaging device and/or a body region of a patient, and the reversible attachment is configured to provide for maintaining a predefined relative position of the hygiene cover to the medical imaging device.
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A hygiene cover configured to prevent contamination of a target surface of a medical imaging device,
- wherein the hygiene cover is configured to be removably attached to (i) the target surface of the medical imaging device, and (ii) a body region of a patient, to maintain a predefined relative position of the hygiene cover with respect to the medical imaging device, and
- wherein a section of the hygiene cover has a predetermined shape configured to fill a gap between the target surface of the medical imaging device and the body region of the patient when the hygiene cover is positioned in the predefined relative position with respect to the medical imaging device.
A medical imaging device for performing an imaging examination of a patient, comprising:
- a target surface comprising (i) a surface of a radio-frequency coil of a magnetic resonance device, (ii) a surface of an emitter or detector of an x-ray device, (iii) a surface of a supporting structure configured to support or fix the body region of the patient in a predefined relative position to the medical imaging device, or (iv) a surface of a housing of a medical imaging device;
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- a hygiene cover configured to be removably attached to (i) the target surface of the medical imaging device, and (ii) a body region of a patient,
- to maintain a predefined relative position of the hygiene cover with respect to the medical imaging device during the imaging examination of the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.