Slanting X-ray Imaging Handles for Natural Posture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional X-ray imaging apparatuses for breast imaging require patients to maintain an unnatural posture with straight arms, leading to discomfort, and existing solutions like recessed or projecting handles do not adequately address the need for a more natural posture.
Innovation Solution
An X-ray imaging apparatus with grasping portions that are higher than the imaging surface and slant towards it, allowing patients to grip comfortably, with handles that are at least a predetermined length, slanting within a specific angle range, and positioned to accommodate varying patient heights and arm lengths, and integrated with the imaging table for stability and comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional X-ray imaging apparatus images the breasts while the examinee keeps the arms straight without bending the elbows, then the imaging can be performed, but the examinee experiences discomfort and unnatural posture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces grasping portions as intermediary elements between the examinee's hands and the imaging apparatus. These portions provide a natural gripping point that allows the examinee's arms to be bent at the elbows, creating a more comfortable and natural posture while maintaining stable positioning during imaging
Solution Approach 2:
The grasping portions are designed with specific geometric parameters including slanting angles and distances from the imaging surface. By optimizing these parameters, the apparatus enables the examinee to adopt a natural posture with bent elbows while maintaining stable and reproducible positioning for consistent imaging quality
2Ease of operation
If recessed shapes or projecting shapes are formed as handles or armrests on the sides of the breast support portion, then some comfort is provided, but the posture is still not sufficiently natural
Solution Approach 1:
The grasping portions serve multiple functions: they act as handles for the examinee to grip, provide structural support, and enable natural arm positioning. By integrating these multiple functions into a single element, the patent avoids adding complex separate components while achieving sufficient examinee comfort and natural posture
3Ease of operation
If the grasping portions are disposed higher than the imaging surface and slant towards it, then the examinee can maintain a more natural posture, but the positioning precision must be maintained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent specifies precise geometric parameters for the grasping portions including their height above the imaging surface, slanting angles, and horizontal distances. By carefully controlling these parameters, the design enables natural posture while ensuring reproducible and precise positioning for consistent imaging quality
Solution Approach 2:
The grasping portions are positioned at specific locations with particular geometric characteristics tailored to human anatomy. The slanting angle and distance from the imaging surface are optimized to match natural arm positioning, providing local quality enhancement that accommodates examinee posture while maintaining overall positioning precision
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AI summary
An X-ray imaging apparatus is disposed with an imaging table that includes an imaging surface with which a breast of an examinee in an upright posture is brought into contact and handles that are disposed higher than the imaging surface during craniocaudal imaging. Grip portions of the handles slant so as to gradually become closer to a chest wall contacting portion as the grip portions approach the imaging surface. Thus, when an examinee is made to grasp the handles, the posture of the examinee can be made more natural.