Patent ID: 7274765

Claim:
A computer tomograph, comprising: a rotating part supported to be rotatable with respect to a stationary part; a video data source on the rotating part for generating video data from measurement data of a detector; a first control unit on the rotating part for generating control information; at least one transmission controller on the rotating part for generating, from the video data of the video data source and from control information of the control unit, serial data for transmission to the stationary part by means of a rotary joint; at least one reception controller on the stationary part for receiving and evaluating serial data transmitted by the rotary joint, and for communicating control information and video data contained in the serial data transmitted by the rotary joint to a second control unit and a data sink, respectively; and wherein serial data generated by the at least one transmission controller comprise data frames, and video data and control information are transmitted in a common data frame.