Patent ID: 8681932

Claim:
A medical computed tomography imaging apparatus for imaging extremities, which apparatus includes a support construction which is arranged to support a substantially ring-shaped structure supporting imaging means, which imaging means include a source of radiation and a receiver of image information, which imaging means are arranged within said substantially ring-shaped structure supporting the imaging means substantially on opposite sides of each other and movable within said ring-shaped structure supporting the imaging means, which apparatus includes in said ring-shaped structure supporting the imaging means an examination opening wherein the object to be imaged is positionable for imaging, and in which apparatus said substantially ring-shaped structure supporting the imaging means is arranged movable with respect to said support construction at least in the vertical direction and, on the other hand, turnable with respect to an axis substantially parallel with the horizontal diagonal of a radial cross-section of the ring-shaped structure in question, wherein at least one padding element is attached to said ring-shaped structure of the apparatus such that the patient can, depending on the imaging mode in question touch, lean on, kneel on, sit on or step on said at least one padding element when positioning oneself to be imaged, in connection with the actual patient positioning and/or during the actual imaging.