Medical apparatus installation, and method for controlling a medical apparatus

A medical apparatus comprising

• a medical device configured to interact with a patient;
• a patient placement device in said medical apparatus adapted to receive the patient thereon, said patient placement device comprising a plurality of electromechanical sensors arranged in a two-dimensional array in said patient placement device;
• an evaluation unit configured to operate said plurality electromechanical sensors to obtain respective measurement signals individually from the plurality electromechanical sensors, each of said plurality respective measurement signals representing breathing activity and cardiac activity of the patient;
• a control unit receiving the respective measurement signals from said plurality electromechanical sensors being configured to automatically evaluate the respective measurement signals to identify a position of the heart of the patient with respect to the patient placement device;
• said evaluation unit being configured to identify, dependent on the position of the heart of the patient with respect to the patient placement device that has been identified, respective electromagnetic sensors, among a plurality of electromagnetic sensors, that emit respective measurement signals representing chest breathing by the patient and to identify respective electromagnetic sensors, among said respective electromagnetic sensors, that emit respective measurement signals representing diaphragmatic breathing of the patient;
• a control unit configured to operate said medical apparatus at respectively different times to selectively interact with a chest region of the patient or to interact with an abdominal region of the patient;
• when said control unit operates said medical apparatus to interact with the chest region of the patient, said evaluation unit being configured to generate a first trigger signal exclusively from the respective measurement signals emitted by said respective electromagnetic sensors that represent chest breathing, and to supply said first trigger signal to the control unit to automatically trigger interaction of said medical apparatus with the chest region of the patient using said first trigger signal;
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• when said control unit operates said medical apparatus to interact with the abdominal region of the patient, said signal evaluation unit being configured to generate a second trigger signal exclusively from the respective measurement signals emitted by the respective electromagnetic sensors that represent diaphragmatic breathing, and to supply said second trigger signal to said control unit to trigger interaction of said medical apparatus with the abdominal region of the patient dependent on said second trigger signal.

A non-transitory, computer-readable data storage medium encoded with programming instructions, said data storage medium being loaded into a computerized control and evaluation system of a medical apparatus that also comprises a medical device that interacts with a patient, and a patient placement device adapted to receive the patient thereon and having a plurality of electromagnetic sensors arranged in a two-dimensional array therein, said programming instructions causing said computerized control and evaluation system to:

• after placement of the patient on the patient placement device, operate electromechanical sensors to obtain respective measurement signals individually from the plurality of electromechanical sensors, each of said respective measurement signals representing breathing activity and cardiac activity of the patient;
• automatically evaluate the respective measurement signals to identify a position of the heart of the patient with respect to the patient placement device;
• dependent on the position of the heart of the patient with respect to the patient placement device that has been identified, identify respective electromagnetic sensors, among said plurality of electromagnetic sensors, that emit respective measurement signals representing chest breathing by the patient and identify respective electromagnetic sensors, among a plurality of electromagnetic sensors, that emit respective measurement signals representing diaphragmatic breathing of the patient;
• at respectively different times, selectively operate said medical apparatus to interact with a chest region of the patient or to interact with an abdominal region of the patient;
• when operating said medical apparatus to interact with the chest region of the patient, generate a first trigger signal exclusively from the respective measurement signals emitted by said electromagnetic sensors that represent chest breathing, and automatically trigger interaction of said medical apparatus with the chest region of the patient using said first trigger signal;
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• when operating said medical apparatus to interact with the abdominal region of the patient, generate a second trigger signal exclusively from the respective measurement signals emitted by the electromagnetic sensors that represent diaphragmatic breathing, and trigger interaction of said medical apparatus with the abdominal region of the patient dependent on said second trigger signal.