Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for adjusting a scanning region of a computed tomography (CT) scanner. At least one edge point of a set-point scanning region on a patient examination table associated with the CT scanner is indicated by hand signals of a user. Via a distance sensor, mounted at a reference point of the patient examination table, a distance from the at least of edge point to the reference point is measured. From the measured distance, the position of the at least one edge point relative to the patient examination table is determined, and a corresponding edge of a CT scanning region of the CT scanner is conformed to the derived position.

Abstract: In a CT scanning method and apparatus wherein a radiation source is displaced around a system axis and a ray bundle therefrom strikes a detector system that supplies scan data on the basis whereof two-dimensional scan images of the examination subject are determined in an image calculating device, parameters describing the position of a body part of an examining person situated in the beam path are determined by an analysis of registered scan images, and the radiation source is controlled dependent on the analysis result so that the radiation is reduced when the body part is located in the beam path.

Abstract: A control system for medical equipment comprises an examination/treatment system, an optical detection system which is operably affixed to the examination/treatment system and configured to collect data corresponding to detected gestural inputs made by an operator in relation to a targeted examination/treatment area on a patient positioned on a patient examination apparatus, and an evaluation system configured to adjust operation parameters of the examination/treatment system as a function of the collected gestural input data communicated by the optical detection system.

Abstract: A technical device and an associated remote control is provided. The remote control includes a support and a contact. The technical device includes a support rail and a contact rail. The support, the contact, the support rail and the contact rail are adapted to one another and fashioned such that an optical and/or electrical effective connection is automatically produced between the contact and the contact rail via attachment of the remote control to the support rail.

Abstract: An apparatus for medical diagnosis and therapy systems has at least one operator control device generating at least one control signal corresponding to at least one function of the apparatus, a control unit for converting the at least one control signal into the at least one function of the medical apparatus, a signal transmission device for wireless transmission of the at least one control signal from the at least one operator control device to the control unit of the medical apparatus, and at least one console adapted for detachably engaging the at least one control device. The signal transmission device has at least one first transmission unit in communication with the at least one operator control device and at least one second transmission unit in communication with the control unit. At least one interference-free transmission path is established when the at least one control device is engaged with the at least one console.

Abstract: A safety device is provided that can be connected with a technical device and an associated emergency activation apparatus. The safety device includes a rail. The rail and emergency activation apparatus are fashioned such that the emergency activation apparatus can be attached to the rail and be shifted thereon. A test signal can be output by the rail that can be received by an emergency activation apparatus attached thereto independent of its shift position. A response signal can be output by the emergency activation apparatus that can be received by the rail independent of the shift position emergency activation apparatus. The safety device is fashioned such that a signal can be emitted to the technical device dependent on the receipt of the response signal. Via the signal, an emergency measure can be triggered, for example an emergency disconnection of the technical device such as an E-stop or, respectively, dead-man's function.

Abstract: In a method and a device for positioning a patient in a medical diagnosis device or therapy device, an image-recording device records an image of the patient, which is displayed on a screen, and an image processor aids the positioning of the patient. At least one body region is automatically detected by the image processor, and a scan area is automatically suggested on the screen that covers the body region.

Abstract: In a method and a device for positioning a patient in a medical diagnosis device or therapy device having a position calculating device and a patient bed adjustable in at least one plane, at least one optical target marking is brought into conformity with a body region of the patient. At least one image recording device is used for obtaining an exterior image of the patient that is displayed on a screen. The target marking that is spatially coupled with the coordinate system of the diagnosis device or therapy device, is superimposed on the image of the patient on the screen such that a predetermined body region of the patient can be brought into a desired spatial correlation with the target marking by remote control movement of the patient bed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for repositioning a patient in a diagnostic/therapeutic system, as well as to such a system, wherein a repeated, accurate repositioning is achieved by producing difference images from a reference image and a current image, each in two recording axes, which are independent of each other, and by subsequently minimizing the visible differences. The reference images are produced with the same camera setting as the current images.

Abstract: In a CT scanning method and apparatus wherein a radiation source is displaced around a system axis and a ray bundle therefrom strikes a detector system that supplies scan data on the basis whereof two-dimensional scan images of the examination subject are determined in an image calculating device, parameters describing the position of a body part of an examining person situated in the beam path are determined by an analysis of registered scan images, and the radiation source is controlled dependent on the analysis result so that the radiation is reduced when the body part is located in the beam path.

Abstract: A medical installation system including at least one medical therapy and/or diagnostics apparatus having a controller with a control computer, and further including at least one computer work station connected to a first data network. The control computer is connected thereto via a second data network separated from the first data network such that the computer work station and the control computer are capable of communicating with one another.