CN103040482A - Patient positioning apparatus - Google Patents
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Abstract
A patient positioning apparatus for supporting and properly positioning a patient during medical imaging procedures is provided. A positioning apparatus can be segmented into articulated sectional members, which may be pivotally connected to one another allowing proper positioning within the gantry port of a CT, PET, and/or SPECT tomography scanning machine.
Description
The cross reference of related application
The application requires U.S.'s temporary patent application to be authorized (application number: 61/391,624; Date of application: priority on October 9th, 2010), this application quotes in full at this.
Technical field
The present invention relates generally to the equipment that is used for patient's maintenance during computer tomography (CT), PET (positron emission tomography) (PET) and/or single photon emission fault imaging (SPECT).
Background technology
In medical science fault imaging field, importantly in scan period with the appropriate maintenance of patient to obtain correct image.And fault imaging scanning needs a few minutes or longer time.Patient location is comfortable extremely important during this period, because in fact patient must keep motionless to obtain satisfied result.Patient moves in scan period and can cause image data unavailable, needs extra consumption instrument and expends the activity duration.Therefore, the improper expense that can increase medical imaging process of patient's maintenance.
We need a kind of in imaging process with the appropriate device of maintenance cosily of patient.Some embodiments of the present invention have overcome one or more limitations of prior art.
Summary of the invention
Some embodiment relate to a kind of patient's maintenance equipment, comprising: the patient support panel with General Spatial face bed section that a plurality of two ends are hinged; Footpost with general rectangular structural member of top and bottom, and the upper end is assembled in the patient support panel; Be assemblied in the member of translational of footpost lower end, be used for along axis translation patient support panel, axis is generally perpendicular to the gantry centre bore of medical imaging apparatus; The fixed base that is assembled on the member of translational; The fixed mechanical clutch that is contained in the base end is used for mechanical fixed-type external assembling medical imaging instrument; And the electric clutch that is loaded on the base end, be used for the electric assembling of medical imaging instrument.
According to some embodiment, the supporting surface of each General Spatial face bed section can be one or more General Spatial face shapes: sliding surface, disc or profile.
According to some embodiment, the articulated elements between the adjacent bed section can be electrodynamic type and/or manual type.
According to some embodiment, articulated elements also comprises the parts for the fixed bed fragment position, i.e. one or more mechanical stops, index pin and/or clip.
According to some embodiment, footpost comprises a jacking system.
According to some embodiment, member of translational comprises one or more screw mandrels, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing, guide rail, track and/or belt transmission.
According to some embodiment, electric clutch comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.
A kind of patient's maintenance equipment, comprising: the patient support panel that a plurality of General Spatial face bed sections that are hinged by two ends form, the supporting surface of each General Spatial face bed section can be one or more General Spatial face shapes: sliding surface, disc or profile, the articulated elements between the adjacent bed section can be electrodynamic type and/or manual type.Footpost with general rectangular structural member of top and bottom, and the upper end is assembled in the patient support panel, and footpost comprises jacking system; Be assemblied in the member of translational of footpost lower end, be used for along axis translation patient support panel, axis is generally perpendicular to the gantry centre bore of medical imaging apparatus, and member of translational comprises one or more screw mandrels, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing, guide rail, track and/or belt transmission; The base of fixed assembling and support member of translational; The fixed mechanical clutch that is contained in the base end is used for mechanical fixed-type external assembling medical imaging instrument; And the electric clutch that is loaded on the base end, be used for the electric assembling of medical imaging instrument, and electric clutch comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.
According to some embodiment, articulated elements also comprises the parts for the fixed bed fragment position, i.e. one or more mechanical stops, index pin and/or clip.
A kind of patient's maintenance equipment, comprising: one or more had for the patient support panel of the General Spatial supporting surface of laying patient; Footpost with general rectangular structural member of top and bottom, and the upper end is assembled in the patient support panel; Be assemblied in the member of translational of footpost lower end, be used for along axis translation patient support panel, axis is generally perpendicular to the gantry centre bore of medical imaging apparatus; The base of fixed assembling and support member of translational; And the system that plugs into that is used for machinery and/or electronics connection medical imaging apparatus.
According to some embodiment, one or more General Spatial supporting surfaces consist of a complete bed surface.
According to some embodiment, comprise one or more General Spatial supporting surfaces in a plurality of sections that two ends are hinged.
According to some embodiment, the supporting surface of each General Spatial face bed section can be one or more General Spatial face shapes: sliding surface, disc or profile.
According to some embodiment, the articulated elements between the scanning bed adjacent bed section can be electrodynamic type and/or manual type.
According to some embodiment, member of translational comprises one or more screw mandrels, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing, guide rail, track and/or belt transmission.
According to some embodiment, the system that plugs into also comprises a kind of fixed mechanical clutch that is contained in the base end, is used for mechanical fixed-type external assembling medical imaging instrument.
According to some embodiment, the system that plugs into also comprises a kind of electric clutch that is loaded on the base end, is used for the electric assembling of medical imaging instrument.
According to some embodiment, electric clutch comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.
After describing in detail below reading and understanding, those skilled in the art can know clearly other advantages of the present invention and benefit.
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The present invention may with some physical part and arrangement of parts as embodiment, be described in detail, and accompanying drawing wherein partly is illustrated in this manual:
Fig. 1 is a kind of perspective view of patient's maintenance equipment; And
Fig. 2 is the perspective view of a kind of patient's maintenance and section scanner.
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According to some embodiment, patient's maintenance equipment comprises a kind of stagewise patient support panel (segmented patient support surface).Use articulated elements that each section is hinged.This equipment comprises the vertical supporting structure that an end is connected with the patient support panel, and the other end is connected with the base that member of translational is housed.Member of translational is used for by rectilinear direction translation stagewise patient support panel.In certain embodiments, this equipment comprises for computed tomography (SPECT) system is carried out the system that plugs into that machinery and/or electronics are connected by general fixed form and its.And in certain embodiments, mechanical clutch also has or comprises the electronics linkage function that is intended to automatically control the patient support panel.Therefore, the computer of control patient support panel can be positioned at a distance, on the computed tomography (SPECT) system platform.
Consult Fig. 1, according to embodiment 100, the patient support panel can be segmented into first paragraph 111, second segment 112, the 3rd section 113, and the 4th section 114, and every section all be general rectangle.Although this example has been illustrated 4 sections, specific embodiment can have 1,2,3,4,5 or the section of any suitable number.According to the embodiment with a plurality of sections, the end of each section can adopt hinge arrangement with end.For example, first paragraph 111 can be arranged in the foot of patient support panel, then utilizes articulated elements and second segment 112 hinged.Second segment 112 is buttocks districts of patient support panel, can utilize articulated elements and the 3rd section 113 hinged in a relative side of first paragraph 111.In like manner, the 3rd section 113 is back region, can be hinged a side of relative second segment 112 and the 4th section 114.The 4th section 114 is back and/or header area.
In certain embodiments, connecting an articulated elements of section 111,112,113,114 can be by institute's arrangement with each section maintenance and/or locking.For example, articulated elements can comprise mechanical stops, index pin and hole, clip or any in the industry retention feature of extensive use.And articulated elements can also be electrodynamic type, namely adopts the maintenance of Electronic Control bed section.
Although the bed section that this paper emphasis is described is general rectangle, art technology person can admit in addition more other applicable shapes.And the supporting surface with a plurality of Duan Shangyu contact patients may comprise the profile that is applicable to the supporting patient parts of body.This class profile is applicable to accurately reach cosily maintenance patient.Therefore some embodiment may comprise the shaping cushions such as the prefabricated profile that is applicable to each different patient's build or memory foam.When mentioning the bed section of patient support panel, term as used herein " General Spatial face shape " comprises sliding surface, disc and/or above-mentioned various profile.
According to some embodiment, vertically supporting 120 is a kind of elongated structural members, and an end is connected to electrodynamic type member of translational 130, and the relative other end is hinged to one or more sections of patient support panel, as shown in Figure 1.In certain embodiments, the joint of vertical connecting support 120 and bed section can be around one or more spatial axes rotations.Can also this joint of electronic control, with patient support panel maintenance in required orientation.
For vertical support 120 itself, its applicable structure has various, includes but not limited to as shown in Figure 1 single-column or multi-post structures.For example, each section can have an independent vertical support.In addition, some embodiment also comprise one or more guide rails, by fixing or sliding type supporting bed section 111,112,113,114.And, in certain embodiments, vertically support 120 and include but not limited to hydraulic pressure and/or telescopic jacking system etc.
According to some embodiment 200, member of translational 130 is used for implementing translation by the rectilinear direction that is substantially perpendicular to imaging device gantry centre bore 100 shown in Figure 2 (being Z axis).Electrodynamic type member of translational 130 is the patient scanned of maintenance automatically, as shown in Figure 3.Applicable member of translational is the linear drive system of any in the industry extensive use, comprising but be not limited to screw mandrel, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing system, guide rail, track and/or belt drive system.
As shown in Figure 2, some embodiment comprise a kind of base 140 that holds, partly wraps and/or support member of translational 130.In certain embodiments, base 140 comprises a kind of parts 150 of plugging into that patient support equipment 100 machineries and/or electronics are connected to medical imaging apparatus 210.The applicable parts 150 of plugging into are used for fixed assembling medical image system, can unload or be permanently fixed.For example, in certain embodiments, can assemble or unload medical image system 210 at patient support equipment 100 on demand.The type of the applicable parts 150 of plugging into includes but not limited to machenical coupling and/or magnetic shaft coupling.And the electronics shaft coupling of the parts 150 of plugging into comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.In certain embodiments, the parts 150 of plugging into comprise a clutch that has machinery and two kinds of functions of electronics clutch concurrently, but in other embodiments, may only have the machinery or the electric clutch that only have independent function.
Described above and at the embodiment shown in the various views only for illustrating purpose, and embodiment itself is not limited to these.Therefore, those skilled in the art can know clearly, said method and equipment can have other change types not breaking away under the general range prerequisite of the present invention.Accordingly, wish that change type among the present invention that all these are possible all is included in appended claims or wherein in the scope of claim.
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1. patient's maintenance equipment, comprising:
The patient support panel comprises the General Spatial face bed section that a plurality of two ends are hinged;
Vertical support with general elongated structural member of first end and the second end, and first end is assembled in the patient support panel;
Be assemblied in the member of translational of vertical support the second end, be used for along axis translation patient support panel, axis is generally perpendicular to the gantry centre bore of medical imaging apparatus;
The base of fixed assembling and support member of translational;
The fixed mechanical clutch that is contained in base one end is used for mechanical fixed-type external assembling medical imaging instrument; And the electric clutch that is loaded on base one end, be used for the electric assembling of medical imaging instrument.
2. according to claim 1 equipment, the shape of the supporting surface of each General Spatial face bed section is selected from one or more General Spatial face shapes: plane, sliding surface, disc or profile.
3. according to claim 1 equipment, the articulated elements between the adjacent bed section of patient support panel is electrodynamic type and/or manual type.
4. according to claim 3 equipment, articulated elements also comprises the parts for the fixed bed fragment position, comprises one or more mechanical stops, index pin and/or clip.
5. according to claim 1 equipment vertically supports and comprises jacking system.
6. according to claim 1 equipment, member of translational comprises one or more screw mandrels, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing, guide rail, track and/or belt transmission.
7. according to claim 1 equipment, electric clutch comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.
8. patient's maintenance equipment, comprising:
The patient support panel, comprise a plurality of General Spatial face bed sections that two ends are hinged, the shape of the supporting surface of each General Spatial face bed section is selected from following one or more General Spatial face shapes: plane, sliding surface, disc or profile, and wherein the articulated elements between the adjacent bed section is electrodynamic type and/or manual type;
Vertical support with general elongated structural member of first end and the second end, and first end is assembled on the part of patient support panel, and vertically support and comprise jacking system;
Be assemblied in the member of translational of vertical support the second end, be used for along axis translation patient support panel, axis is generally perpendicular to the gantry centre bore of medical imaging apparatus, and member of translational comprises one or more screw mandrels, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing, guide rail, track and/or belt transmission;
The base of fixed assembling and support member of translational;
The fixed mechanical clutch that is contained in base one end is used for mechanical fixed-type external assembling medical imaging instrument; And
Be loaded on the electric clutch of base one end, be used for the electric assembling of medical imaging instrument, wherein electric clutch comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.
9. according to claim 8 equipment, articulated elements also comprises the parts for the fixed bed fragment position, comprises one or more mechanical stops, index pin and/or clip.
10. patient's maintenance equipment, comprising:
Patient support panel with one or more General Spatial supporting surfaces be used to laying patient;
Vertical support with general elongated structural member of first end and the second end, and first end is assembled on the patient support panel part;
Be assemblied in the member of translational of vertical support the second end, be used for along axis translation patient support panel, axis is generally perpendicular to the gantry centre bore of medical imaging apparatus;
The base of fixed assembling and support member of translational; And
Be used for the system that plugs into that machinery and/or electronics connect medical imaging apparatus.
11. equipment according to claim 10, wherein said one or more General Spatial supporting surfaces consist of single complete bed surface.
12. equipment according to claim 10, wherein said one or more General Spatial supporting surfaces comprise a plurality of sections that two ends are hinged.
13. equipment according to claim 12, wherein each section shape is following one or more General Spatial face shapes: plane, sliding surface, disc or profile.
14. equipment according to claim 12, wherein the articulated elements between the adjacent bed section of patient support panel is electrodynamic type and/or manual type.
15. equipment according to claim 10, wherein member of translational comprises one or more screw mandrels, ball screw, servosystem, linear bearing, guide rail, track and/or belt transmission.
16. equipment according to claim 10, the system that wherein plugs into also comprises a kind of fixed mechanical clutch that is contained in base one end, is used for mechanical fixed-type external assembling medical imaging instrument.
17. equipment according to claim 10, the system that wherein plugs into also comprises a kind of electric clutch that is loaded on base one end, is used for the electric assembling of medical imaging instrument.
18. equipment according to claim 17, wherein electric clutch comprises one or more control bus, data/address bus, address bus and/or power bus.
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