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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/08 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/08 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for displaying a selected acquisition field of view of a medical tomography apparatus in the region of a patient table of the tomography apparatus with the aid of an illumination device including at least one light source. In this regard, the illumination device includes at least one setting device for revealing and/or masking boundary areas of a field of illumination of the illumination device which are revealed or masked as a function of the selected acquisition field of view. An illumination device is also disclosed for this purpose.