CT Scanner Bottom Notch for Surgical Platform Clearance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing CereTom CT machine is too small to accommodate full-body scanning, particularly in an operating room setting where a patient is supported on a surgical platform, due to its bottom skirt being too close to the floor, preventing it from encompassing the torso and surgical platform within its central opening.
Innovation Solution
The CereTom CT machine is scaled up to accommodate full-body scanning by incorporating a bottom notch in its skirt, allowing the base of the patient support to extend into the housing, thereby increasing the clearance to accommodate the torso and surgical platform, and equipped with a video camera and screen system for navigation and power-driven wheels for enhanced mobility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the CereTom CT machine is scaled up to accommodate full-body scanning, then the scanning capability is improved, but the clearance to the floor increases which may affect stability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a bottom notch to the skirt of the CT machine housing, creating a new dimensional feature that allows the surgical platform base to extend underneath the housing. This dimensional change enables full-body scanning capability while maintaining proper clearance and stability by accommodating the platform base in the vertical dimension below the housing.
2Ease of operation
If the bottom skirt is positioned close to the floor, then mobility is improved, but the clearance to accommodate surgical platform base is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The skirt is segmented by introducing a bottom notch, dividing it into sections that can accommodate the surgical platform base. This segmentation allows the skirt to maintain its overall close-to-floor position for mobility while creating localized clearance space for platform accommodation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the housing is enlarged to encompass torso and surgical platform, then scanning versatility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of enlarging the entire housing, the patent extracts only the necessary portion by adding a bottom notch to accommodate the surgical platform base. This selective modification achieves scanning versatility without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
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An apparatus for imaging an object comprising: an imaging device configured to image the object while the object is supported on a support, the support comprising a base for positioning on a surface, wherein the object and the support are stationary relative to the surface, and further wherein the imaging device is adapted to move relative to the surface, and hence relative to the object and to the support, during imaging; the imaging device comprising a housing having a bottom notch sized to accommodate the base of the support, whereby to allow the base of the support to extend into the housing during imaging.