Medical examination or treatment apparatus

• US 20060203250A1
• Filed: 03/10/2006
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Staab, Reiner, Regn, Judith
• Granted Patent: US 7,489,961 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 356/482
• 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 6/467 characterised by special input means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/548 Remote control of the apparatus or devices

Abstract

Medical examination or treatment apparatus, in particular X-ray or CT apparatus, comprising a controlling system controlling the operation of one or more apparatus elements, and at least one mobile operating element which is assigned to the control-ling system and which communicates wirelessly with the control-ling system for operating the examination or treatment apparatus for the transmission of operating signals, there being pro-vided at least one device which operates in a direction-selective and/or frequency-selective manner to modify the operating signals transmitted by the operating element such that a controlling system of examination or treatment apparatus disposed adjacent the examination or treatment apparatus to be intentionally operated is not activated by the modified operating signals or there being provided on the examination or treatment apparatus assigned to the operating element at least one acoustic and/or visual signal transmitter which is actuated when an operating signal is generated by the assigned operating element.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A medical examination or treatment apparatus, comprising:

a controlling system for controlling one or more apparatus elements;

at least one mobile operating element assigned to the controlling system and configured to communicate wirelessly with the controlling system for operating the examination or treatment apparatus by transmitting operating signals; and

at least one processing device configured to operate direction-selectively and/or frequency-selectively for modifying the operating signals transmitted by the operating element such that a further controlling system of a further examination or treatment apparatus arranged adjacent to the examination or treatment apparatus is not activated by the modified operating signals.

9. The examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the direction-selective and/or frequency-selective device is a scrambler.

10. The examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the direction-selective and/or frequency-selective device is integrated into a building wall and is configured to modify operating signals passing through the building wall such that operating signals originating on one side of the building wall propagate on the other side of the building wall as the modified operating signals.

12. The examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controlling system is configured to process the operating signals transmitted by the operating element only after lapse of a selectable dead time.

14. The Examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the operating element is a portable or movable foot switch or a portable hand-held switch.

8. A medical examination or treatment apparatus, comprising:

a controlling system for controlling one or more apparatus elements;

and at least one mobile operating element assigned to the controlling system and configured to communicate wirelessly with the controlling system for operating the examination or treatment apparatus by transmitting operating signals; and

at least one acoustic and/or visual signal transmitter arranged on the examination or treatment apparatus, the acoustic and/or visual signal transmitter configured to signal an operating signal transmitted by the operating element.

11. The examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the one acoustic and/or visual signal transmitter is a signal tone generator or a flashing light.

13. The examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controlling system is configured to process the operating signals transmitted by the operating element only after lapse of a selectable dead time.

15. The Examination or treatment apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the operating element is a portable or movable foot switch or a portable hand-held switch.