US 12,186,115 B2
Method for moving a patient couch
Berthold Baumann, Kastl (DE); Gerhard Wurzer, Mantel (DE); and Alexander Kraemer, Irchenrieth (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Jul. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/867,895.
Claims priority of application No. 21187402 (EP), filed on Jul. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0029121 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/0487 (2020.08) [A61B 5/704 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for moving a patient couch as a function of a body value of a patient positioned on the patient couch for medical imaging, the medical imaging taking place in an imaging modality with a recording region, the patient couch being configured to move within the recording region via a drive chain, and the method comprising:
providing the body value of the patient;
setting an operating parameter of the drive chain as a function of the body value such that
a speed value of the patient couch is increased to an increased speed value, and
a rocking of the patient couch during movement of the patient couch is at least partially suppressed, the setting being performed via a controller configured to control the drive chain; and
moving the patient couch via the drive chain in accordance with the increased speed value to perform the medical imaging.