Patient bed, and method for reproducibly positioning and supporting a patient therewith
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsStefan Schaller, Jürgen Simon
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Abstract
A patient bed and a method for reproducibly positioning and supporting a patient in a medical diagnosis or therapy apparatus, such as a CT apparatus or an MRI apparatus, involve supporting at least regions of the patient body in a desired position on the patient bed and using at least one positioning unit to position the regions of the patient body relative to the patient bed. The patient bed has a number of height-adjustable elements arranged like a matrix that are individually adjustable in terms of height.
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A patient bed configured to receive a patient thereon for reproducibly positioning and supporting the patient, said patient bed comprising:
- a bed base;
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- a plurality of height-adjustable elements comprising support pegs disposed matrix-like on said bed base, each of said height-adjustable elements being individually adjustable in height relative to said bed base;
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- a positioning arrangement that interacts with said plurality of height-adjustable elements to selectively adjust the respective heights of individual ones of said height-adjustable elements to selectively position a region of the patient relative to the bed base.
A method for reproducibly positioning and supporting a patient on a patient bed comprising the steps of:
- disposing a patient on a patient bed and supporting said patient on said patient bed at multiple body locations of the patient with a plurality of individually height-adjustable elements;
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- positioning a region of the patient on the patient bed by individually adjusting the respective heights of the height-adjustable elements;
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- obtaining an image of a patient on the patient bed with a camera and storing said image and using said image to reposition that patient on the patient bed at a time after said image is obtained and stored.
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