Patent ID: 8750591

Claim:
An angiography system for examining an object of a patient, comprising: a patient support table for supporting the patient; a C-arm; an x-ray emitter disposed at an end of the C-arm; an x-ray image detector disposed at another end of the C-arm for recording an x-ray image of the object, wherein the object comprises details hiding each other in the x-ray image depending on an angulation of the C-arm; a monitor that displays the x-ray image; and a control unit configured to: record a 3D dataset of the object registered to the C-arm, detect a course of the object from the 3D dataset, calculate an optimum angulation of the C-arm from the course of the object detected from the 3D dataset, and adjust the C-arm to the optimum angulation for recording the x-ray image, wherein the optimum angulation of the C-arm lies at a right angle to a connecting axis of the details and lies at a right angle to a main axis of the object.