US 12,213,824 B2
Image recording facility for a medical imaging system, lifting column and module system for producing a lifting column
Wolfgang Neuber, Eschenbach I. D. Opf. (DE); Thomas Dippl, Pressath (DE); Dieter Heinl, Erbendorf (DE); Franz Fuetterer, Puechersreuth (DE); and Thomas Kleber, Moosbach (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/146,667.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 215 075.6 (DE), filed on Dec. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0200764 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 6/40 (2024.01)
CPC A61B 6/4458 (2013.01) [A61B 6/0407 (2013.01); A61B 6/4021 (2013.01); A61B 6/4476 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording facility for a medical imaging system, comprising:
a radiation source configured to emit radiation;
a patient table having a tabletop for supporting a patient during image recording;
a radiation detector configured to detect the radiation, the radiation detector being in or under the tabletop;
a first bearing apparatus of bearing apparatuses bearing the radiation source; and
a second bearing apparatus of the bearing apparatuses bearing the patient table, wherein at least one of the bearing apparatuses is a lifting column, the lifting column including,
a lifting carriage moveable along a longitudinal direction of the lifting column by a column linear guide, the radiation source or the patient table being attached to the lifting carriage, and
a traction mechanism attached to a base attachment point and the lifting carriage, the traction mechanism is configured to transfer a weight force of the radiation source or a weight force of the patient table to the attachment point, the traction mechanism being around a guide pulley and moveable along the longitudinal direction of the lifting column by an actuator and by a guide pulley linear guide.