X-ray irradiating apparatus and x-ray imaging system
AssigneeGE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
InventorXiong Yi
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Abstract
An X-ray irradiating apparatus includes an X-ray tube attached to a front end of a column suspended from a carriage, the carriage being displaceable along a rail parallel to a ceiling. The X-ray irradiating apparatus includes a power supply cable fixed at one end thereof to the carriage, a guide mechanism for guiding the cable along the rail upon displacement of the carriage, and a reaction force mechanism for applying to the carriage a reaction force which withstands a tension induced by slackening of the cable outside the guide mechanism.
Claims20
An X-ray irradiating apparatus comprising:
- a carriage configured to move along a rail oriented parallel to a ceiling;
- an X-ray tube coupled to a frond end of a column suspended from said carriage;
- a power supply cable coupled at a first end to said carriage;
- a guide mechanism configured to guide said cable along said rail upon movement of said carriage;
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- a reaction force mechanism configured to apply a reaction force to said carriage which withstands a tension induced by slackening of said cable outside said guide mechanism.
An X-ray imaging system comprising:
- a carriage configured to move along a rail oriented parallel to a ceiling;
- an X-ray tube coupled to a frond end of a column suspended from said carriage;
- a power supply cable coupled at a first end to said carriage;
- a guide mechanism configured to guide said cable along said rail upon movement of said carriage;
- a reaction force mechanism configured to apply a reaction force to said carriage which withstands a tension induced by slackening of said cable outside said guide mechanism;
- an X-ray detector configured to detect X-rays emitted by said X-ray tube;
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- an operator console configured to reconstruct an image based on the X-rays detected by said X-ray detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.