Positioning device for an imaging diagnosis system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsDonal Medlar, Matthias Seufert
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Abstract
A positioning device for a diagnostic imaging system includes a patient bed on which a patient can be moved from an exterior preparation position into the diagnosis system, a picture screen and one or more cameras arranged over and/or next to the patient bed in the region of the preparation position and that is coupled with the picture screen and a computer. The desired examination region is selected in the patient image on the picture screen with a region selection device in order to automatically move the patient with the selected examination region into the diagnostic imaging system, the patient being on a patient bed provided with a position acquisition device.
Claims7
A positioning device for a diagnostic imaging system, comprising:
- a patient support having a table adapted to receive a patient thereon which is movable between a preparation position, outside of said diagnostic imaging system, to an interior position within said diagnostic imaging system;
- a camera having a field of view which includes at least a portion of said patient bed in said preparation position;
- said patient bed having a position acquisition device which generates a signal indicating a position of said table;
- a picture screen connected to said camera for displaying an image in said field of view of said camera;
- a region selection device which interacts with said picture screen to designate a desired examination region in the image on the picture screen;
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- a computer connected to said picture screen and to said patient bed, and receiving said signal from said position acquisition device, for automatically moving said table and said patient to a position within said diagnostic imaging system needed for obtaining an image of said examination region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.