MAT FOR MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND BED FOR MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS

• US 20100064437A1
• Filed: 08/25/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Masahiro, HARADA, Tomokazu, KODAMA, Kiyoyuki, MIYATANI, Yoshiyuki, TSUKAGOSHI, Shinsuke
• Application Number:
  US12/547,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20100064437A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 5/601
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/04 Positioning of patients; Tiltable beds or the like operating tables A61G13/00; operating chairs A61G15/00

Abstract

A medical image diagnosis apparatus mat for laying a subject when imaging a medical image is configured so that a face on which the subject is laid can be switched between a state of a flat plate having a predetermined thickness and a state of a plate having the predetermined thickness and having a recessed part.

Claims

1. A medical image diagnosis apparatus mat for laying a subject when imaging a medical image, wherein a face on which the subject is laid can be switched between a state of a flat plate having a predetermined thickness and a state of a plate having the predetermined thickness and having a recessed part.

2. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 1, comprising a removable member configured to have almost the same thickness as the predetermined thickness to fit into the recessed part and to be detachable, wherein the face changes into the state of the plate having the recessed part by detaching the removable member.

3. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 2, wherein the removable member is divided into a plurality of members split in a longer direction of the mat, and the plurality of members can be individually detached.

4. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 2, wherein the removable member has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and the removable member is configured to be detachable by horizontally moving in a shorter direction of the mat.

5. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 4, wherein at least a bottom of the recessed part of faces of the recessed part in contact with the removable member is made of a material having different roughness from a material of a surface of the removable member.

6. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 4, wherein a length in the shorter direction of the removable member is a different length from a length in the shorter direction of a portion other than the removable member of the mat.

7. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 2, wherein the recessed part has a circular shape when viewed from above and the removable member fitting into the recessed part has a substantially columnar shape.

8. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 7, wherein the removable member is divided into a plurality of concentric ring-like members and the plurality of members can be individually detached.

9. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 1, wherein the part is sectioned from the other portion of the mat to be switched from the state of the flat plate to the state of the plate having the recessed part when air in the part is discharged, and switched from the state of the plate having the recessed part to the state of the flat plate when air is injected into the recessed part.

10. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 1, wherein the recessed part is positioned in middle in a longer direction of the mat.

11. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 1, wherein a length of the recessed part in a longer direction of the mat is equal to or more than 20 cm and equal to or less than 50 cm.

12. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 1, wherein a depth of the recessed part is 1 cm or more.

13. The medical image diagnosis apparatus mat according to claim 1, wherein a length of the recessed part in a shorter direction of the mat is 20 cm or more.

14. A medical image diagnosis apparatus bed for laying a subject when capturing a medical image, the bed comprising:

a top plate;

a leg member configured to support the top plate; and

a mat member placed on the top plate so that a subject is laid, wherein the mat member is configured so that a face on which the subject is laid can be switched between a state of a flat plate having a predetermined thickness and a state of a plate having the predetermined thickness and having a recessed part.