Patent ID: 8226295

Claim:
A targeting device to provide a visible indication of an invisible beam emitted by a radiation source on a medical imaging system, the targeting device comprising: an illumination source configured to produce a visible beam and operate at one or more wavelengths, the illumination source being mountable outside of a field-of-view of the invisible beam produced by the radiation source; and a monolithic beam reflector mounted proximate to the beam illumination source and configured to mount within and substantially orthogonal to the field-of-view of the invisible beam, a portion of the monolithic beam reflector being configured to redirect the visible beam produced by the illumination source parallel to the field-of-view of the invisible beam, the monolithic beam reflector assembly being comprised of a single piece of material at least within the field-of-view of the invisible beam to limit artifacts in a resulting image in the medical imaging system, the monolithic beam reflector being transparent to the invisible beam emitted by the radiation source.