Patent ID: 7505803

Claim:
A system for the examination of a patient by an imaging medical diagnostic equipment that can be positioned on a table top of a patient table, comprising: a first system component for determining an occupancy distribution exerted by the patient on the table top, wherein the first system component is implemented using occupancy-value-detecting pressure sensors associated with the table top and distributed in the form of a two-dimensional sensor array; a second system component, linked to the first system component, for determining patient data corresponding to the occupancy distribution, in particular with respect to body dimensions and position of internal organs; and a third system component, linked to said second system component and to the diagnostic equipment, for directly adjusting the diagnostic equipment according to the patient data; wherein the diagnostic equipment comprises equipment for performing x-ray imaging, rotational angiography, computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, SPECT or PET; and wherein the third system component is implemented to automatically adjust the diagnostic equipment in respect of image recording parameters, specifically relating to a particular examination area of the patient.