US 6,270,506 B1Granted

Medical targeting apparatus

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsHarald Sittek, Erwin Linsmeier

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Abstract

A medical targeting apparatus has assembly composed of several parts arranged so as to be able to be displaced relative to one another, an instrument control unit fastened to the assembly an adjustment arrangement for adjusting the parts and the instrument control unit relative to one another, a patient mount for positioning at least a body part of a patient in a diagnostic imaging apparatus, and a marking device, connected to the patient mount in a first position, for producing a visible mark in an image of the body part. A manually actuatable fastening arrangement is disposed on the assembly and/or on the patient mount for detachably fastening the assembly on the patient mount in a second position. The first and second positions are spaced from, and have a fixed relation to, one another.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A medical targeting apparatus comprising:

an assembly comprising a plurality of components which are mounted so as to be displaceable relative to each other;
an instrument mount adapted to hold an instrument for medical interaction with a patient, said instrument mount being attached to said assembly and being positionable relative to a patient by said assembly;
an adjustment arrangement for selectively displacing said components of said assembly to selectively position said instrument mount;
a patient mount adapted for positioning at least a body part of a patient in a diagnostic imaging apparatus;
a marker connected to said patient mount in a first position, for producing a visible mark in an image of said body part;
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a manually actuatable fastener mounted on at least one of said assembly and said patient mount, for detachably fastening said assembly to said patient mount in a second position, said first position and said second position being spaced from each other and having a fixed relation to each other.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.