Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Klaus Hambüchen

Klaus Klingenbeck-Regn

Joachim Hornegger

Stefan Assmann

A user predefines for a computer a retrieval instruction for primary data of a patient or of several patients. The computer accesses the primary data of this patient and outputs them to the user via a visual display device. The primary data comprise the primary image data recorded by way of a primary imaging modality and/or primary information derived from said primary image data. The computer automatically checks whether it is possible to access secondary data of this patient, which comprise the secondary image data recorded via a secondary imaging modality and/or secondary information derived from said secondary image data. In the affirmative case, the computer outputs a corresponding message to the user via the visual display device and/or by accessing at least a portion of the secondary data of this patient and outputting said data to the user via the visual display device.

Operating method for a computer

An X-ray system has two X-ray arrays each having an X-ray source and an X-ray detector. The X-ray arrays can be swiveled around a common swiveling axis within whose range an object is locatable. The X-ray detectors are situated opposite the X-ray sources with respect to the swiveling axis. They are embodied as flat-panel detectors so that an irradiating of the object in a first or, as the case may be, second irradiation plane can be registered by them. The irradiation planes contain the swiveling axis and run perpendicular to connecting lines linking the X-ray sources to the X-ray detectors. The area contents of the irradiation planes are mutually different. When the X-ray arrays are positioned correspondingly, the first irradiation plane will completely cover the second irradiation plane.

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Hemhofen, Germany

Klaus Hambüchen