MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS

WIPO Patent Application WO/2010/089842

A1

Provided is a medical image diagnosis apparatus which requires a small area for installation, has a short length in an axial direction of the apparatus, can reduce a problem of the strength of a top plate, and can simultaneously carry out dynamic PET-imaging of the entire body. A top plate (61) on which an examinee lies is moved through a tunnel of a CT gantry (2) and a PET gantry (3) to execute CT imaging and PET imaging. A PET unit consisting of a plurality (e.g. seven) of PET units (32) has a length of 2 m in the axis direction, the visual field thereof covers the whole body and the whole body can be simultaneously subjected to dynamic PET-imaging. For the maintenance of the PET gantry (3), the diagnosis apparatus is separated at an arbitrary PET unit (32) to be maintained, the apparatus slides on a rail (31) in the axis direction and is separated for maintenance operation. Accordingly, a large space for maintenance is not required and the area for installation is small.

INOUE YOSHIHIRO (JP)
AMANO MASAHARU (JP)
TANAKA KAZUMI (JP)
MIZUTA TETSURO (JP)
OHTANI ATSUSHI (JP)

PCT/JP2009/051745

August 12, 2010

February 03, 2009

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SHIMADZU CORP (JP)
INOUE YOSHIHIRO (JP)
AMANO MASAHARU (JP)
TANAKA KAZUMI (JP)
MIZUTA TETSURO (JP)
OHTANI ATSUSHI (JP)

G01T1/161; A61B6/03

JPH02167488A	1990-06-27
JPS59153188A	1984-09-01
JPH09211130A	1997-08-15
JP2006166968A	2006-06-29
JPH04268484A	1992-09-24
JP2008134205A	2008-06-12

KITA, Toshifumi et al. (JP)
Toshifumi Kita (JP)

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