US 12,251,245 B2
Radiological imaging method and radiological apparatus with vertical scanning of 2 radiation sources
Stéphane Bleas, Paris (FR); Pascal Desaute, Paris (FR); Laurent Jacquier, Viroflay (FR); Cédric Nottebaert, Villeneuve d'ascq (FR); and David Vittecoq, Mere (FR)
Assigned to EOS IMAGING, Paris (FR)
Appl. No. 17/774,258
Filed by EOS IMAGING, Paris (FR)
PCT Filed Nov. 5, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/001250
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 4, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/090042, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0386968 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/10 (2006.01); A61B 6/40 (2024.01)
CPC A61B 6/02 (2013.01) [A61B 6/102 (2013.01); A61B 6/4014 (2013.01); A61B 6/4007 (2013.01); A61B 6/4429 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radiological imaging method comprising:
vertical scanning, of a patient standing on a patient platform, by a first radiation source and a second radiation source which belong to a gantry encapsulated within a gantry cover, which have imaging directions orthogonal to each other and which slide vertically so as to perform said vertical scanning, wherein:
said gantry cover has a top view that is L shaped and has an interior angular sector,
each of said first and second radiation sources:
is located:
outside of said L shaped gantry cover, and
inside of the interior angular sector,
and is encapsulated within a cover sliding vertically with said radiation source that said cover encapsulates;
detecting, using a first security device, a patient body part going outside a first predetermined area;
stopping, using said first security device, said vertical scanning when said first security device detects a patient body part going outside a first predetermined area so as to avoid collision between said patient body part and said vertically sliding radiation sources covers;
detecting, using a second security device, a presence of an object or of a person external to said radiological apparatus within a second predetermined area; and
stopping, using said second security device, said vertical scanning when said second security device detects the presence of an object or of a person external to said radiological apparatus within the second predetermined area so as to avoid collision between said object or person and said vertically sliding radiation sources covers.