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US 6,435,715 B1Granted
Radiography device
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRoland Betz, Peter Noegel
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Abstract
A radiography device has an X-ray source and an X-ray reciever that are each arranged to be moved freely in space at a robot arm respective robots having a number of arms that can be displaced relative to one another by motor-drive. A central control unit controls the displacement of the robot arms of the two robots such that the X-ray source is always oriented to the X-ray receiver for producing an X-ray exposure.
Claims4
A radiography device comprising:
- an X-ray source;
- an X-ray receiver;
- a first robot having a connected plurality of first robot arms, including one of said first robot arms at which said X-ray source is mounted, all of said first robot arms being freely displaceable in space by motor drive;
- a second robot having a connected plurality of second robot arms, including one of said second robot arms at which said X-ray receiver is mounted, all of said second robot arms being freely displaceable in space by motor drive;
- a central control unit electronically connected to said first robot and to said second robot for controlling displacement of said plurality of first robot arms and said plurality of second robot arms for orienting said X-ray source and said X-ray receiver at a plurality of respective positions in spaces while always maintaining said X-ray source and said X-ray receiver in relative positions relative to each other for allowing a radiographic image of a subject to be acquired, to acquire a plurality of radiographic images of the subject;
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- a computer supplied with said plurality of radiographic images for generating a three-dimensional image of said subject from said plurality of radiographic images.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.