Operating device for a diagnostic imaging unit

• US 20040196958A1
• Filed: 12/01/2003
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Beck, Werner, Lobenhofer, Brigitta, Platz, Axel, Meissner, Franz
• Application Number:
  US10/725,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20040196958A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/116
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/465 adapted to display user selection data, e.g. graphical user interface, icons or menus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/467 characterised by special input means

Abstract

The invention relates to an operating device for a diagnostic imaging unit. The operating device has a selection key for activating preset operating values and parameters of the imaging unit, and a setting key for manually setting operating values and parameters of the imaging unit. It also has a display element for displaying set operating values and parameters of the imaging unit. In accordance with the invention, the operating device makes available simultaneously with the display element either only the selection key or only the setting key.

Claims

1. An operating device for a diagnostic imaging unit, comprising:

a selection key for activating preset operating values and parameters of the imaging unit;

a setting key for manually setting operating values and parameters of the imaging unit; and

a display element for displaying set or preset operating values and parameters of the imaging unit;

the operating device being configured to simultaneously display the display element and only one of the selection key and the setting key.

2. The operating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating device is designed as a touch-sensitive display screen.

3. The operating device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a display area for displaying the display element.

4. The operating device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an operating area for making available the selection key or the setting key.

5. The operating device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a switchover key configured to switch between a display of the selection key and the setting key.

6. The operating device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a recording key for triggering picture-taking that is made available both simultaneously with the selection key and simultaneously with the setting key.

7. The operating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the diagnostic imaging unit is an X-ray machine.