Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Psb Intralogistics Gmbh

Wolfgang Neuber

Harald Mulzer

Matthias Schirbl

Franz Dirauf

Mario Bechtold

Dieter Heinl

Thomas Dippl

Berthold Baumann

Josef Zeidler

Alexander Kraemer

Kerstin Waldbach

Juliane Ritter

Andreas Deinlein

Alexander Krämer

Matthias Mueller

Michael Koerth

Helmut Gollwitzer

Thomas Kleber

Jan-Christoph Kiesel

Franz Fuetterer

Marcus Radicke

Paul Weidner

Michael Kleber

Klaus Hruschka

Stefan Hesl

Peter Rauh

Georg Walberer

Rita Krug

Anna Jerebko

Martin Seifert

Michael Atzinger

Rolf Schmidt

Thomas Pfeiffer

Stefan Gross

Matthias Müller

Peter Bier

Patrick Plannerer

Fabian Strobl

Guido Schraml

Thorsten Gecks

Claus-Guenter Schliermann

Alexander Beer

Moritz Weber

Riccardo Kunze

Ralf Gärtner

Uwe Hartig

Ann-Christin Roessler

Karin Ratzmer

Anja Brundobler

Daniela Bolte

Ralf Gaertner

Matthias Hupfauf

Michael Siebenweiber

Rainer Reber

Hubert Plannerer

Guenther Gambke

Fabian Fliege

Daniel Raschke

Ulli Alfred Kassler

Lothar Dietz

Kai Marhofer

One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a tilt module for a patient couch, having a first support unit, a second support unit and a linear drive system, wherein one of the first support unit and the second support unit is configured to fix the tilt module to a stand of the patient couch or to receive a couch board, wherein the second support unit is connected via a joint to the first support unit at a tilt angle, wherein the linear drive system couples the first support unit and the second support unit such that the second support unit is tiltable relative to the first support unit along a circular-like travel path with simultaneous variation of the tilt angle due to a change in length of the linear drive system.

Tiltable couch board

A patient couch is disclosed. In an embodiment, the patient couch includes a docking facility for mechanical docking on a docking point of a medical imaging installation; a drive unit including a plurality of wheels for a drive movement of the patient couch up to a docking position, where the docking facility reaches the docking point; at least one sensor, to acquire sensor signals characterizing a relative position between the medical imaging installation and the patient couch; a computing unit to calculate a movement trajectory with a destination of the docking position for the patient couch, based on the sensor signals acquired; and a display facility, to display the movement trajectory calculated for a user.

Patient couch for a medical imaging installation

One or more example embodiments relates to an image recording facility for a medical imaging system including a radiation source configured to emit radiation; a patient table having a tabletop for supporting a patient during image recording; a radiation detector configured to detect the radiation, the radiation detector being in or under the tabletop; a first bearing apparatus of bearing apparatuses bearing the radiation source; and a second bearing apparatus of the bearing apparatuses bearing the patient table.

Image recording facility for a medical imaging system, lifting column and module system for producing a lifting column

A base body of a computed tomography drum is disclosed. In an embodiment, the base body includes at least the following components: a base plate, an outer ring and an inner ring. The inner ring is arranged concentrically with the outer ring. The outer ring and the inner ring are arranged on the base plate. At least two of the components are configured as separately producible components. Two of the separately producible components are connected to one another by way of at least one of: bonding, welding, riveting, clinching, clinch-bonding and/or rivet-bonding.

Base body of a computed tomography drum comprising at least two separately producible components, computed tomography drum and computed tomography device

A stand is for a medical imaging system. In an embodiment, the stand includes an X-ray tube; a driver to adjust the X-ray tube in at least three spatial degrees of freedom; at least one environmental sensor to acquire at least one environmental parameter; and a controller to control an adjustment movement of the X-ray tube by generating control signals for the drive unit and to adapt the adjustment movement based on the at least one environmental parameter.

Collision-free X-ray tube movement

Arranged in an examination room is a CT installation which can travel along a predetermined travel path between two installation limit positions. Arranged on the CT installation is a telescopic rod, which extends from a hinge point that is proximal with respect to the CT installation to a hinge point that is distal with respect to the CT installation. The telescopic rod is rotatably mounted in the two hinge points, and can telescope between a minimum length and a maximum length. Arranged on the telescopic rod () are a number of retaining elements that can travel along the telescopic rod. A number of lines are guided via the retaining elements, so that when the telescopic rod is of minimum length, the lines are guided in serpentine loops.

Examination room having CT installation with improved cable guidance

A system and a method are respectively for positioning an examination object and evaluation of an image with respect to a positioning of a breast of an examination object in relation to an x-ray device. In an embodiment, the system includes an x-ray device including at least one compression device to fix a breast of the examination object; at least one camera, arranged in relation to the x-ray device such that images are acquirable via the at least one camera, the images showing a current positioning of the breast of the examination object in relation to the x-ray device; and at least one display device, embodied to display the images.

Positioning of an examination object in relation to an x-ray device

A biopsy unit is for fixing to a mammography device. In an embodiment, the biopsy unit includes a fixing device and a receptacle for a biopsy needle. The biopsy unit is permanently connectable to the mammography device, and wherein the biopsy unit is pivotable between a rest state and an operating state.

Integratable biopsy unit and mammography device

A patient support apparatus including a patient couch and a single supporting pillar on which the patient couch is arranged in an adjustable and cantilevered manner, is provided. The apparatus includes a first rotary frame and a second rotary frame. The first rotary frame rotates about a first axis and encloses the supporting pillar. The second rotary frame rotates about a second axis, rotatably encloses the first rotary frame, and is fixed to the patient couch. The first rotary frame and the second rotary frame form a gimbal mount for the patient couch.

Patient support apparatus with six degrees of freedom

The disclosure provides a device having a C-arm, the C-arm including a main body of which the cross-sectional profile is formed as a double H, an outer wall, an inner wall and two side walls of the main body forming a rectangular cavity. The device also includes running wires arranged on the main body and running rollers, on which the C-arm is movably mounted, rolling on the running wires. The running wires and the running rollers are arranged in such a way that at least 50 percent of the mounting forces acting on the running wires due to the running rollers is introduced into the side walls of the main body. The disclosure also provides an x-ray imager having such a device. The disclosure offers the advantage that undesired oscillations of the C-arm are avoided.

Device having a C-arm and X-ray imager

A C-arm for a medical examination device or therapeutic device, is designed as a cast metal component. In at least one embodiment, one or more reinforcement profile, extending at least in certain sections along the C-arm, are cast in.

C-arm for a medical examination device or therapeutic device

A medical treatment or examination device includes at least one device component that may move relative to at least one other device component via a drive device. A measuring device is provided for detecting a load acting on the movable device component. The measuring device includes a support that bends due to the load. The support, at least in a bending region, has a section producing a magnetic field. The measuring device also includes at least one coil that is assigned to the section and in which the magnetic field undergoing a change as a result of bending due to a load induces an induction current that serves as measurement signal describing the load.

Medical treatment or examination device

A medical examination facility is provided, wherein the facility includes an imaging apparatus and a mobile patient table. Mechanical coupling devices to be connected to each other are provided on both the imaging apparatus and the mobile patient table for the purpose of mechanically coupling the patient table to the imaging apparatus in an end position. The mechanical coupling device of the imaging apparatus includes a pulling device that is movable to a locking position via a controllable drive motor. In order to automatically move the patient table, the pulling device engages a driver provided on the patient table, before the end position is reached, and carries it by moving to the locking position, in which the patient table is in the end position.

Medical examination facility

A securable rail guide contains a guide rail, a runner rail arranged in the guide rail and able to travel along the guide rail, and a securing unit which is embodied to fix the runner rail in position in the guide rail in a releasable manner. A locking unit is arranged on the guide rail and is embodied to secure the runner rail in a locked position, and an unlocking unit is arranged on the runner rail. The locking unit and the unlocking unit are parts of the securing unit. The unlocking unit is operatively connected to the locking unit such that an actuation of the unlocking unit releases the runner rail to allow a free movement along the guide rail. This configuration provides a separation of the locking and unlocking mechanisms, as a result of which an independent configuration of the stability of the overall locking mechanism is possible.

Rail guide having a securing unit, patient table having a rail guide for accessories, and method for operating a rail guide

A housing cladding module for a medical device is provided for collision identification. The module includes resistor elements, which are arranged in and/or on the surface and which are designed such that the resistor elements change their electrical resistance on expansion. The resistor elements are arranged in such a way that the resistor elements are expanded in the event of a collision with an object. The collision is identified easily, and the effective collision force may be ascertained.

Housing cladding module with collision identification for medical devices

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Wolfgang Neuber