Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Rudolf Brendl

Karl Weiss

Alfred Hahn

Johann Finkenzeller

Gerd Wessels

Alois Noettling

Wolfgang Zerl

Wolfgang Jaeger

Harry Kirsch

Roland Sauer

Hans-Peter Rieger

A medical diagnostics installation comprises components for portraying an examination region on a monitor and includes an operating unit which is spatially spaced from the monitor and has a control unit, either a sensor field, a joystick or a key field, for acting on a data processor for controlling the components. The data processor includes a data store that contains data corresponding to different operating menus, and these menus are capable of being called in via the operating unit and are displayed on the monitor. At least one operating condition of the medical diagnostics installation can be produced by the operating unit and the operating menus correspond to the operating conditions being displayed on the monitor are only the operating functions required for this operating condition. The operating functions are controllable via a mark or cursor which is controlled by either the sensor field, joystick or key field.

Medical diagnostics installation

At its outside, the table frame or support is provided with two symmetrical, circular drive paths into each of which a drive wheel engages. Two respective guide rails are arranged at the table frame or support at both sides thereof, two respective, stationary guide pegs engaging into these guide rails in the horizontal position, said guide rails being fashioned and directed or, respectively, curved such that, given adjustment of the tilting table out of the horizontal position, respectively two guide pegs leave their guide rail and the lower end of the table frame or support is lifted to such a degree that it lies above the floor level. The curvature of at least one pair of guide rails at both sides of the table frame or support is selected such that the tilting speed is roughly uniform.

X-ray diagnostics installation including a tilting table

An improved x-ray diagnostic apparatus having a table mounted on a table support and being tiltable on a support base to positions on each side from a horizontal position with one of the side positions being through 90.degree. characterized by a drive arrangement including a curved drive track on the table support engaged by drive wheels mounted on the support base and a guide arrangement including two spaced guide rails on the table support receiving guide pins or members of the support base when the table is in the horizontal position. When the table moves from the horizontal position, the guide rail of the upper end of the table disengages from its respective guide pin so that the guide rail at the lower end coacting with its guide pin and the support provided by the drive arrangement coact to maintain the lower end above the floor level. Preferably, the drive arrangement also includes a support arrangement having a curved support track engaging a support roller so that only tangential forces are applied between the drive wheel and drive track.

X-ray diagnostic device having a tiltable table

In an illustrative embodiment, a patient card insertable into the device has the patient data thereon light projected onto the x-ray film with the aid of a light source and an optical image reproducing system; variable data in addition to the data of the patient card are brought into the data field so as to be light-projected onto the x-ray film in a common region and with a common orientation.

Device for identifying x-ray films

The disclosure relates to a sheet film changer comprising a photographic exposure station, at least one supply magazine for the film sheets, and two discrete, synchronously driven conveyor belts which are disposed one above the other in the vicinity of the exposure station for conveying film sheets clamped between them. The conveyor belts transport the film sheets from a receiving location associated with the supply magazine to the photographic exposure station and then to a release location. In order to facilitate fluoroscopy when no film sheets are disposed in the path of rays, the conveyor belts themselves can be readily irradiated and are provided with intensifier foils only at specified sections. In order to achieve a greater flexibility with regard to the photographic conditions, at least two intensifier foils with different intensification properties are secured to each of the two conveyor belts. The sheet film changer is used for X-ray diagnosis.

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Erlangen, Germany

Rudolf Brendl