Medical examination and/or treatment device
OwnerPaul Beasley, Oliver Heid +1inventors
InventorsPaul Beasley, Oliver Heid, Timothy Hughes
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Abstract
A medical examination and/or treatment device has an apparatus for detecting the movement of at least one part of the body of an examination subject that changes its space coordinates periodically or aperiodically, wherein the apparatus includes at least one transmitter (8) transmitting the FMCW signal and at least one receiver (11) for receiving the FMCW signal reflected by the moving part of the body and is embodied for determining (3) the movement-induced changes in the space coordinates of the part of the body from the frequency shift of an FMCW signal reflected by the part of the body.
Claims20
A medical examination and/or treatment device having an apparatus for detecting the movement of at least one part of the body of an examination subject that changes its space coordinates periodically or aperiodically, comprising:
- at least one transmitter transmitting the FMCW signal and
- at least one receiver for receiving the FMCW signal reflected by the moving part of the body,
- wherein the device is configured to determine the movement-induced changes in the space coordinates of the part of the body from the frequency shift of the FMCW signal reflected by the part of the body.
A method for detecting the movement of at least one part of the body of an examination subject that changes its space coordinates periodically or aperiodically by means of an apparatus for detecting the movement of the part of the body, the method comprising:
- transmiting an FMCW signal via at least one transmitter,
- after being reflected by the moving part of the body, receiving the FMCW signal by at least one receiver, and
- determining the movement-induced changes in the space coordinates of the part of the body from the frequency shift between transmitted and received FMCW signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.