Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siekens Aktiengesellschaft

Peter Soukal

Martin Spahn

Michael Meyer

Erik Busch

In a flat image detector and method for the generation of medical digital images, the flat image detector is in particular suitable for a medical X-ray device and equipped with at least one active matrix (MX, MX) made up of pixel-readout units, wherein the light generated in the scintillator (SZ) can be read out on both sides in the direction of the incoming X-ray radiation (R) in front of and behind the scintillator, with the aid of such an active matrix in each case arranged on each side of the scintillator.

Flat image detector and method for the generation of medical digital images

The invention relates to a medical device for diagnostics and/or therapy with a system, with a device for self-analysis of the systems and creation of system internal status messages, with a device for interpretation of the system-internal status messages, with associated storage means for special technical and application knowledge, with an operating console for output of interpreted status messages and input of instructions, where the device for interpretation is embodied such that the system-internal status messages are converted on the basis of specialist technical and application knowledge into the interpreted status messages.

Medical device for diagnostics or therapy

A multi-functional X-ray examination has a base, a guide rail attached to the base and two trucks that are attached to the guide rail and are movable along the guide rail. An X-ray exposure system is movable in the longitudinal direction with the first truck, and a patient support mechanism is movable in the longitudinal direction with the second truck. The two trucks can be driven along the guide rail independently of one another.

Medical X-ray examination device

A medical device has at least one displaceable components and a selectively positionable operating unit having a control element for directionally controlling the displacement of the displaceable component. An operating unit position detector and changeover unit is connected to the operating unit and detects the orientation of the operating unit relative to the displaceable component and automatically changes the directional function of the control element in dependent on the orientation of the operating unit relative to the displaceable component.

Medical device with selectively positionable control unit

In a medical therapeutic and/or diagnostic system with at least one operating unit and one control unit communicating therewith, within the framework of the communications operation, at least a part of the operating and/or processing data necessary for operating the system via the operating unit is transferred from the control unit to the operating unit as needed.

Medical therapeutic and/or diagnostic system

In a medical X-ray diagnostic installation and a method for operating same, an X-ray source has a filter means optionally introducible into its beam path and emits X-rays which strike a detector having individual pixel elements and which generates image signals pixel-by-pixel dependent on the received radiation. The detector is followed by a signal processing chain which includes processing meansfor image generation and output, first and only image exposure of the examination subject initially ensues without the filter means introduced into the beam path, after which the image signals obtained from one or more picture element regions of the received image are processed pixel-by-pixel for generating a calculated image corresponding to the image of those regions which would be obtained with the filter means in the beam path, using signals which identify a position of the filter means in the beam path. The processed signals are combined with the unprocessed signals for the remainder of the original image to produce a calculated image, which is supplied as an output for display. The production of a second, actual exposure employing X-rays with the filter means in the beam path is thus avoided, thereby saving time and reducing the patient's overall X-ray dose.

Medical x-ray diagnostic installation and method for operating same

A method for transmitting two digital signals includes utilizing an encoder to generate a pulse of a fixed width in a coded signal each time a positive going 0-1 transmission is detected in the pulse channel. The polarity of the pulse generated by the encoder is defined by a signal present at the signal channel input. The two digital signals are separated after transmission by a decoder which utilizes the time between two successive level changes. A signal edge in the coded signal initiates a time measurement by the decoder and when a further signal edge appears within a fixed time limit then a signal is allocated to the pulse channel. When, instead, no further signal edge appears within this time limit, the signal is allocated to the signal channel of the decoder.

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Schwarzenbruck, Germany

Peter Soukal