Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Erich Huebeck

Manfred Franetzki

Ulrich Schulze-Ganzlin

Werner Guenther

Michael Doebert

Dieter Molitor

Heinrich Schmitt

Joseph Ploetz

An x-ray diagnostics installation for producing x-ray exposures of body parts of a patient has a line detector camera arranged diametrically opposite a radiation source, the line detector camera containing an x-ray detector arranged behind a slot-shaped opening, the width of the x-ray detector being matched to the width or length of the body part to be registered. An adjustment system adjusts the line detector camera relative to the body part such that the slot opening is moved along the body part, whereby the fan beam limited by the radiation diaphragm of the radiation source is moved synchronously relative to the camera motion. The line detector camera can be horizontally or vertically arranged.

X-ray diagnostics installation for producing x-ray exposures of body

The invention is directed to an apparatus for positioning a patient's head for producing a remote X-ray photograph of the skull of the patient. The apparatus includes a device for holding the skull, which is mounted at one end of a cross carrier which is connected to an X-ray diagnostics installation for producing slice exposures of the jaw of a patient. The skull holder contains ear button holders which are adjustable, as well as a nose support for positioning the patient in the skull holder. The apparatus also includes a device for mounting a film cassette, which device is adjustable in a direction towards the radiation source of the X-ray diagnostics installation. In order to be able to make reproducibile temporomaxillary joint exposures, the skull holder is mounted to pivot around a horizontal axis so that the head of the patient can be adjusted in various inclined positions with relation to the sagittal plane.

Apparatus for positioning a patient's head for producing remote X-ray

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Bensheim, Germany

Erich Huebeck