Patent ID: 6530689
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An X-ray unit having an X-ray source, an X-ray receiver, a bearing part and a carrying arrangement, said carrying arrangement being a C-arm with ends and a mounting side of the C-arm being an outer circumferential side of the C-arm, said C-arm being mounted by the mounting side on the bearing part so that it can be adjusted relative to the bearing part, said C-arm having an inner circumferential side, the X-ray source and X-ray receiver being mounted opposite each other at fastening points on the inner circumferential side inward of the ends, said carrying arrangement being provided with a handle for the manual adjustment of the carrying arrangement relative to the bearing part, said handle being arranged on the mounting side of the carrying arrangement to extend along the outer circumferential side beyond the fastening points for the X-ray source and the X-ray receiver and the bearing part having a cutout portion through which the handle passes during adjustment of the C-arm on the housing part.