Patient positioning apparatus and a medical imaging apparatus comprising the patient positioning apparatus
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsPatrick Gross, Martin Ringholz
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Abstract
A patient positioning apparatus is provided. The patient positioning apparatus includes a positioning table, a transfer plate, which is arranged on the positioning table so as to be moveable relative to the positioning table, and a positioning unit for a positioning of a surgical head securing unit on the transfer plate, wherein the positioning unit exhibits a joint unit with at least one first rotational joint unit, wherein the at least one first rotational joint unit exhibits a predetermined stop position for a rotational movement.
Claims16
A patient positioning apparatus, comprising:
- a positioning table;
- a transfer plate, which is arranged on the positioning table so as to be moveable relative to the positioning table;
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- a positioning unit for a positioning of a surgical head securing unit on the transfer plate,
- wherein the positioning unit exhibits a joint unit with a first rotational joint unit, and
- wherein the first rotational joint unit exhibits a predetermined stop position for a rotational movement, and
- wherein the joint unit exhibits a belt, by means of which a rotational movement of the first rotational joint unit is transferred onto the second rotational joint unit.
The patient positioning apparatus as claimed in 8, wherein the first limb element exhibits a first length which at maximum corresponds to a second length of the second limb element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.