Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Guenther Winkelmann

Bernd Granz

Klaus Herrmann

A medical system has an X-ray apparatus with an X-ray system having an X-ray source and an X-ray receiver, and a therapy unit with a source of focused acoustic waves, the therapy unit being detachably coupleable to the X-ray apparatus. A method for coupling the therapy unit to the X-ray apparatus is also disclosed. The coupling is performed so that after the therapy unit has been coupled to the X-ray apparatus the focus of the acoustic wave source is situated at least approximately in the beam path of the central beam of an X-ray bundle proceeding from the X-ray source to the X-ray receiver, and the X-ray system can be adjusted relative to the source.

Medical system having an X-ray machine and a therapy unit with a source

A therapy apparatus with a source of therapeutic acoustic waves, an ultrasound locating system with a diagnostic ultrasound transducer that emits a diagnostic ultrasound beam whose central ray is displaceable such in a scanning surface so that it scans a body slice of a subject to be treated achieves an improved image quality of the ultrasound images by the scanning surface being continually displaced slightly relative to the source during the generation of ultrasound images.

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Herzogenaurach, Germany

Guenther Winkelmann