Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Harald Graf

Stefan Hesl

Jürgen Plannerer

Michael Kleber

Klaus Hruschka

Paul Weidner

Gerhard Wurzer

Lutz Weiss

Roland Schoecklmann

Franz Fütterer

Stefan Popp

A medical facility has a patient couch having a position that can be adjusted in the vertical direction via a drive. An operating method for a medical facility with a patient couch having a position that can be adjusted in the vertical direction via a drive includes actuating the drive in response to receiving, by a control facility, a travel command from an operator to move the patient couch upward, the actuating including, moving the patient couch downward during an initial period, and actuating the drive in a lifting period immediately following the initial period such that the drive moves the patient couch upward.

Optimized adjustment of a patient couch in the vertical direction

An X-ray stand includes a device that compensates for distortions caused by weight. The stand includes a horizontal bracket. The device for distortion compensation includes an inclination-angle transmitter that generates an inclination signal as a function of an inclination angle of the bracket. The device also includes a control device that receives the inclination signal from the inclination-angle transmitter, a motor drive that is activated by the control device, and an adjustment device that is driven by the motor drive and is configured to adjust the inclination angle of the bracket. The control device activates the motor drive such that any deviation of the inclination angle of the bracket from a predefined inclination angle is reduced.

Stand with device for distortion compensation

An apparatus for filtering an x-ray beam emitted by an x-ray source comprises a filter, adjustable from a parked position (P) outside of a path of the x-ray beam into a filtering position (F) in the x-ray beam path. A corresponding first sensor device detects when the filter in the filtering position (F), and a corresponding second sensor device detects when the filter in the parked position (P). Further, sensor signals are communicated by the first and second corresponding sensors to an evaluation device. The evaluation device generates a report if the filter is not in at least one of the parked position (P) and the filtering position (F).

Device for filtering an x-ray beam

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Speichersdorf, Germany

Harald Graf