Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Wolfgang Mittelstaedt

Dieter Hassler

Johann Finkenzeller

Michael Meyer

Lothar Heinz

Willi Schaefer

A support member for at least one piece of heavy medical equipment in a medical diagnostic station is made of fiber-reinforced plastic, and has a cross section which is longer in one direction than the other. The fiber-reinforced plastic serves as a shell surrounding a molding member, which may be lightweight plastic material, such that the fiber-reinforced plastic bears the loading on the member. The support member may be disposed for adjustable movement along its length by having metal guides received in the rollers of a carriage.

Medical apparatus support member for carrying a component

The invention involves an ultrasonic tomography device having an ultrasonic transmitting and receiving system for scanning an object under examination from different angles line by line, a fluid tank for immersing the object to be examined, a cover for the fluid tank with a round opening in the center for inserting the object under examination, and a support for an ultrasonic transmitting and receiving system which rotates in the fluid tank around an essentially vertical axis aligned toward the round opening in the center of the cover. In the case of such ultrasonic tomography devices, there is both the requirement of obtaining information from areas as close to the chest wall as possible, and the necessity of distinguishing localized information that can be traced back to artifacts, from real localized information. For this purpose, the invention provides an additional horizontal axis, intersecting the vertical axis just a few millimeters below the surface of the fluid, which is attached to a second angled support rotating around a vertical axis. From this additional horizontal axis is suspended a revolving, essentially L-shaped support bearing a second ultrasonic transmitting and receiving system on its free end that is capable of revolving through the median perpendicular to the central opening in the cover, and whose direction of radiation is aligned to the mid-point of the central opening in the cover. An ultrasonic tomography device designed in accordance with the invention is particularly suited for use in medical technology.

Ultrasonic tomography device

A dental X-ray diagnostic device for producing panoramic layer exposures of a subject particularly panoramic layer exposures of a jaw characterized by an X-ray source mounted on an arm of a carriage, a cassette which receives X-ray film and is rotatably mounted on the arm so that when the arm of the carriage is rotated both the source and cassette rotate around the subject with the cassette also being rotated relatively on the arm and a slit diaphragm having a changeable effective width for varying the thickness of the layer in which sharp images can be obtained.

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Neunkirchen, Germany

Wolfgang Mittelstaedt