Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

Michael G Ambrosia

Dennis K Everett

Robert G Henderson

Steven J Plummer

Douglas B McKnight

Jacin C Barnes

Alan Love

Gustavo Francken

Mark Edwards

Marc Huber

Zhengyan Wang

Matthew D Fleischhauer

An isolation system with imaging or radiation therapy capability is disclosed. At least one containment barrier () defines an isolation region (). An imaging or therapy system () is disposed outside of the isolation region. The containment barrier includes a substantially hollow tubular extension () protruding away from the isolation region (). The substantially hollow tubular extension surrounds an interior volume () that is in fluid communication with the isolation region and is in fluid isolation from the imaging or therapy system. The substantially hollow tubular extension is made at least partially of a material providing operative communication between the imaging or therapy system and the interior volume of the substantially hollow tubular extension.

Containment tubes and imaging systems employing same

There are occasions when a medical facility has the need to image subject that have been contaminated with a hazardous or communicable chemical or biological agent. Occurrences of such conditions are often too remote to justify having diagnostic scanners dedicated to such imaging. A contaminated or 'hot' chamber () interfaces with one or more uncontaminated imaging suites or 'cold' chambers (). The hot chamber () includes barrier walls () with selectively deployable containment tubes () that when deployed, are sealed with the barrier wall () and extend from the barrier wall into the gantry of the cold chamber scanners. The tubes () extend the hot chamber () can be extended into the cold chambers () for imaging while remaining sealed, isolating the hot subjects from the cold imaging equipment. The imagers can thus be used for both normal clinical scanning and hot patient scanning.

Mobile multiple modality containment suite

A subject loading system is provided for moving a subject disposed in an isolation zone into and out of a diagnostic system disposed outside the isolation zone. A tube extends away from the isolation zone. The tube has an inner volume open to the isolation zone and operatively coupled with the diagnostic system. An elongated subject support pallet is disposed in the isolation zone and dimensioned to fit into the tube. A base including a mechanical drive is disposed in the isolation zone and is configured to align the elongated subject support pallet with the tube and to move the elongated subject support pallet into and out of the tube.

Subject table for isolation environment

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Cleveland Heights, OH, United States of America

Michael G Ambrosia