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Patient positioning indication arrangement for a computed tomography system

  • US 4,117,337 A
  • Filed: 11/03/1977
  • Issued: 09/26/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An arrangement for indicating the staged position of a patient in relation to a first scan of a computed tomography system and for examining the patient with penetrating radiation such as x-rays, the arrangement including a source of an x-ray beam and a detector disposed about a generally vertical gantry having a generally cylindrical opening for receiving the patient, said system including a generally horizontal patient supporting table which is translatable along the longitudinal axis generally centered within the opening of the gantry wherein the table is displacable from an initial staged position outside of the gantry to a predetermined position within the gantry for the first scan of the patient and the table is further displaceable for the purpose of disposing additional layers of the patient into the path of the x-ray beam, said arrangement comprising a first energy beam source located so as to project a first visible pattern on the surface of the patient prior to the patient being translated into said gantry and said first pattern corresponding to the location of the first scan of said system when the patient-supporting table is subsequently translated into said gantry.

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