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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Erhard Paul Artur Klotz, Neumuenster, DE;
Hermann Schomberg, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/02 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an X-ray device which includes a C-arm ( ) carrying an X-ray source ( ) and an X-ray detector ( ), and includes a suspension device ( ) with a joint ( ), the X-ray source ( ) and the X-ray detector ( ) being rotatable about a propeller axis (z ) which extends through the joint ( ). In order to enable flexible movements in such an X-ray device, notably a wide variety of trajectories, according to the invention the X-ray device is construction in such a manner that the position of the propeller axis (z ) can be changed in all spatial directions (z , z , z ).