Therapy station for treatment with focused acoustic waves having an X-ray locating system pivotable relative to an acoustic wave source
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKlaus Herrmann, Guenther Krauss, Peter Noegel
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Abstract
A therapy station for treatment of a patient with focused acoustic waves has a source of focused acoustic waves attached to a source carrier, an x-ray carrier carrying an x-ray locating system, and a support table for the patient. The x-ray carrier is pivotably attached to the source carrier so as to be pivotable relative to the source of acoustic waves and such that the central ray of the x-ray locating system always proceeds through the focus of the focused acoustic waves, and the source carrier is adjustable relative to the support table in a plane.
Claims9
A therapy station for treating a subject with focused acoustic waves comprising:
- a source of focused acoustic waves, said focused acoustic waves converging at
- a focus;
- a support table adapted to accommodate a subject to be treated;
- source carrier means, to which said source of focused acoustic waves is mounted,
- for adjusting the position of said source of focused acoustic waves in a plane relative to said support table;
- x-ray locating means for identifying the position of a treatment site in said subject, and having a central ray;
- and
- x-ray carrier means, to which said x-ray locating means is mounted and which is pivotably attached to said source carrier means, for permitting rotation of said x-ray locating means relative to said source of focused acoustic waves while maintaining said central ray proceeding through said focus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.