Abstract: A vehicle with a cargo bed comprises an adapter element arranged in a movable manner along the cargo bed. A support element for at least one functional element is detachably fixed on the adapter element. A guide system for the adapter element comprises at least two parallel guide rails. The adapter element comprises at least two guide elements which engage in the guide rails. At least one guide rail comprises a retaining bead laterally projecting into a guide groove of the guide rail. At least one guide element fixed to the adapter element engages behind the retaining bead, such that a lifting of the adapter element is prevented by the guide rail. The adapter element comprises at least one braking device, which can be brought into operative connection with the cargo bed in order to prevent a displacement of the adapter element on the cargo bed.

Abstract: A vehicle with a cargo bed comprises an adapter element arranged in a movable manner along the cargo bed. A support element for at least one functional element is detachably fixed on the adapter element. A guide system for the adapter element comprises at least two parallel guide rails. The adapter element comprises at least two guide elements which engage in the guide rails. At least one guide rail comprises a retaining bead laterally projecting into a guide groove of the guide rail. At least one guide element fixed to the adapter element engages behind the retaining bead, such that a lifting of the adapter element is prevented by the guide rail. The adapter element comprises at least one braking device, which can be brought into operative connection with the cargo bed in order to prevent a displacement of the adapter element on the cargo bed.

Abstract: To comply with radiation protection provisions that differ from one another for different operating functions without operational restrictions, a radiation protection system is provided in the case of a multifunctional x-ray system for a solid state detector assigned to the x-ray system. The radiation protection system includes a device for restricting the current outer contours of an x-radiation field to bounding outer contours dependent on the selected operating function of the x-ray system.

Abstract: To comply with radiation protection provisions that differ from one another for different operating functions without operational restrictions, a radiation protection system is provided in the case of a multifunctional x-ray system for a solid state detector assigned to the x-ray system. The radiation protection system includes a device for restricting the current outer contours of an x-radiation field to bounding outer contours dependent on the selected operating function of the x-ray system.

Abstract: An x-ray diagnostic system wherein verbal, hands-free data input is available to the user for communicating with the components of the system. The components of the system, which are interconnected via a signal transmission path, include a speech recognition system for data input and a communication device designed so that available and executed commands are reproduced thereby.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a timing device sets the fluoroscopy time, and a program setting and display device displays the instantaneous values of the fluoroscopy voltage and current. An arithmetic unit is provided to which signals are supplied which correspond to the fluoroscopy voltage, the fluoroscopy current, and the fluoroscopy time, and which is so designed that it forms the arithmetic mean values of these quantities and brings them to display.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, the control circuit for controlling filament current to maintain x-ray tube voltage at a set point value is disabled near the beginning of an x-ray exposure by the cut-off of filament current to provide a falling load characteristic as a function of time. During the cooling of the x-ray tube filament, the x-ray tube voltage is maintained near its set point value by the timed switching of taps of a variable-ratio transformer to change the input voltage to the x-ray tube high voltage transformer, and by the coordinated changing of the loading of the primary circuit of such high voltage transformer, the control circuit for maintaining x-ray tube voltage at the set point value thereafter being placed in control of the filament current for the remainder of the x-ray exposure.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, in order to operate the X-ray diagnostic generator with a decreasing (or "falling") load during an X-ray exposure, there is disposed in the primary circuit of the high voltage transformer a bridge rectifier in whose D.C. current branch there is disposed a series of networks each consisting of at least one resistance and one capacitor in parallel, and a switch for the purpose of switching the network into and out of the circuit. A timing control initially short circuits the resistance-capacitance networks to provide for maximum primary current at the start of an exposure, the shunt capacitor absorbing such primary current when each resistance-capacitance network is first switched into the circuit to initiate a relatively smoothly decreasing primary current as a function of time. As secondary voltage tends to decrease, the X-ray tube current is progressively reduced to maintain the selected X-ray tube voltage, the result being the desired smoothly decreasing load characteristic.