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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1991
Joseph S Deucher, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Anton Z Zupancic, Kirtland, OH (US);
Charles A Gardner, Ashtabula, OH (US);
Frank J Oblak, Euclid, OH (US);
Anthony A Champa, Cleveland, OH (US);
Picker International, Inc., Highland Hts., OH (US);
Abstract
In a stowed configuration, a gantry (32) of a CT scanner is mounted by helical, wire rope shock isolators (78) to a floor (12) of an ISO shelter at about a 60.degree. angle relative to a central axis (48) of the shelter. Mechanical assemblies (84, 100) limit movement of a tiltable gantry portion (82) relative to fixed gantry portions (60, 62, 64). A CT scanner control console (36) is mounted adjacent an opposite end of the ISO shelter on shock isolators (140). A patient couch (34) is mounted on shock isolators (122) in a stowed configuration in the available space between the gantry and the console. To deploy the system, foldable walls (26, 30), a foldable ceiling panel (28), and a foldable floor panel (24) of the ISO shelter are folded out. The patient couch is lowered onto casters (124) and moved into alignment with a central axis of the gantry. Jacks (128, 130) lower the patient couch from the casters and shock isolators onto the floor of the ISO shelter for fixed engagement. Jacks (70) lower the gantry from the isolators (78). Pivotal panels (42) of a lead screened viewing windows are pivoted about hinges (150) and lock (152) into an operating position. A track (162) is positioned over a patient access (54) to the ISO shelter and a lapped lead fabric curtain (190) is hung by hangers (170) from the track.