Title:
INTERVENTIONAL VOLUME SCANNER
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003032835
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A C-arm X-ray system is disclosed which includes an X-ray source, an X-ray detector and a support C-arm mechanism including an outer and inner C-arm. The X-ray source and the X-ray detector are oppositely disposed on the inner C-arm. The inner C-arm is suspended upon at least one wheel construction disposed in the support C-arm. The inner C-arm may be automatically driven annularly outside of a first end of the C-arm support and into a second end of the C-arm support to close a gap normally found in conventional C-arm X-ray devices. Such construction allows the X-ray source and X-ray detector to rotate at least one full 360 degree cycle, providing an C-arm X-ray device capable of performing both fluoroscopic and CT procedures without a need to move a patient under examination (i.e., monitoring the patient in a common frame of reference for both applications).
Inventors:
RASCHE VOLKER
LUETJENS JOERN
LUETJENS JOERN
Application Number:
PCT/IB2002/004248
Publication Date:
September 18, 2003
Filing Date:
October 14, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV (NL)
International Classes:
A61B6/00; A61B6/03; (IPC1-7): A61B6/00; A61B6/03
Foreign References:
| US6113264A | 2000-09-05 | |||
| DE19839825C1 | 1999-10-07 | |||
| US5515416A | 1996-05-07 |
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