Patent ID: 6988012
Filing Date: 2006-01-17
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a medical-technical system having a system element and a system part, different from each other and each operated by a control device, said system element exhibiting, respectively at different times, different states of a multi-state status of said system element, said method comprising the steps of: automatically acquiring, with said control device, a current state of said status of said system element and in said control device comparing said current state of said status to a reference status, to obtain a comparison result; initiating, from said control device, a self-test of said system part only if said comparison result satisfies a predetermined status condition; and obtaining a test result in said system part resulting from said self-test, and communicating said test result to said control device, and processing said test result in said control device.