Patent ID: 8496380

Claim:
A medical x-ray system comprising: a medical x-ray apparatus comprising at least one element that is electrically adjustable in order to enable adaptation of the x-ray apparatus to a body size of a patient to be examined; an automatic measurement system configured to automatically interact with the patient to be examined to make a measurement of the body size of the patient to be examined and, from said measurement, to generate data representing the body size of the patient; a computer in communication with said measurement system to receive said data representing the body size of the patient therefrom, said computer being configured to store and process patient data of said patient, including said data representing the body size of the patient, to generate a patient parameter set for operating said medical x-ray apparatus to interact with said patient, said computer having a computer interface; said medical x-ray apparatus comprising a controller having a controller interface, in communication with said computer interface, that receives said patient parameter set from the computer; said controller being configured to calculate a desired position of the at least one electrically adjustable element from the received patient parameter set; and said controller being configured to automatically set the at least one electrically adjustable element to the desired position.