Patent ID: 8000446

Claim:
X-ray examination apparatus, comprising: an X-ray source; X-ray receiver means; imaging means for calculating X-ray images on the basis of output signals from the receiver means; control means for controlling the setting and operation of the apparatus, including at least one human-operable control input device; at least two display devices, each display device having an image screen for displaying the X-ray images; and a mobile carriage carrying said human-operable control input device and said at least two display devices, the carriage having, a top surface, a front side and a back side, wherein said human-operable control input device is located on the top surface closer to the front side of the carriage and said at least two display devices are located closer to the back side of the carriage, wherein the carriage has a control position in which each of the said at least two display devices has its image screen directed substantially towards the front side of the carriage, and a surgeon position in which each of the said at least two display devices has its image screen directed substantially towards the back side of the carriage, and wherein said at least two display devices alone are mounted to the mobile carriage via a mounting column, on opposite sides of the mounting column, to be freely rotatably displaceable together as an integral body between the control position and the surgeon position, wherein a total width of the display devices together as the integral body is larger than a width of the carriage, wherein the mounting column is located close to the back side of the carriage, extending vertically with respect to the top surface of the carriage, and wherein the carriage further has a storage position in which each of the said at least two display devices is freely rotatably displaceable to have its image screen directed substantially towards the other and being positioned above the top surface of the carriage within its perimeter, wherein a first one of said display devices is displaceable from its control position to its storage position by rotation around a vertical axis with respect to the carriage over 90° in a first direction, and wherein the second one of said display devices is displaceable from its control position to its storage position by rotation around said vertical axis with respect to the carriage over 90° in the opposite direction.