Patent ID: 6460206
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising:an image data acquisition system having an imaging volume; a support device adapted to receive an examination subject for displacing said examination subject along at least one displacement direction through said imaging volume; a control device connected to said support device for controlling displacement of said support device; an actuation device carried on said support device, said actuation device being oblong and having a longest dimension along said displacement direction, said actuation device having a plurality of points proceeding along said displacement direction at which said actuation device is respectively actuatable; and a setting device connected to said control device which interacts with said actuation device to set a prescribable region to be imaged within said examination subject in said imaging volume by displacement of said support device, said setting prescribing said region to be imaged by actuation of said actuation device at one of said points at a position within said oblong actuation device corresponding to the position of said region to be imaged along said displacement direction.