Medical device
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsSusumu Urano, Shuji Kaneko, Seinoshin Hamanaka
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Abstract
A medical device can perform treatment and diagnosis without causing a sense of unease to the patient. The medical device includes a substantially ring-shaped support frame provided in such a manner that a central axis through which an isocenter passes is disposed substantially horizontally; a substantially ring-shaped moving gantry which slides relative to the support frame and which has an opening at the isocenter side thereof a radiation emitter configured to emit a beam towards the isocenter; and a protective cover which covers the radiation emitter and an inner circumferential side of the moving gantry and which moves together with the moving gantry.
Claims8
A medical device, comprising:
- a substantially ring-shaped support frame provided in such a manner that a central axis through which an isocenter passes is disposed substantially horizontally;
- a substantially ring-shaped moving gantry which slides relative to the support frame and which has an opening at the isocenter side thereof;
- a radiation emitter configured to emit a beam towards the isocenter;
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- a protective cover which covers the radiation emitter and an entirety of an inner circumferential side of the moving gantry and which moves together with the moving gantry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.