X-ray Detector Housing Camera Display Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
During medical examinations or interventions, X-ray imaging systems lack effective visual guidance, requiring users to temporarily move detectors to obtain a direct view of the patient, which can be inconvenient and disrupt the imaging process.
Innovation Solution
A guiding device with a camera arrangement and display system mounted on an X-ray detector housing allows users to view a live presentation of the region of interest on the opposite side of the housing, providing visual guidance without the need to move the detector, using cameras and displays integrated into the housing structure to create an impression of transparency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the detector housing is used to provide structural support and housing for the X-ray detector, then the housing provides protection and stability, but the housing blocks the user's direct view of the region of interest
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses optical cameras to capture images of the region of interest and displays these images on screens mounted on the detector housing. This creates a visual copy of the obscured area, allowing users to see the region of interest without moving the detector housing, thus maintaining both structural stability and visual access.
2Ease of operation
If the user moves the detector out of the way to obtain a direct view of the area of interest, then visual access is improved, but the imaging process is disrupted and positioning time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
By providing real-time optical images on displays mounted on the detector housing, users can view the region of interest without moving the detector. This eliminates the time loss associated with repositioning the detector while maintaining continuous visual guidance during the imaging process.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera arrangement continuously captures and displays images of the region of interest in advance, so that visual information is already available when the user needs it, eliminating the need to move the detector to obtain visual access.
3Ease of operation
If cameras and displays are mounted on the detector housing to provide visual guidance, then continuous visual guidance is enabled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates cameras, displays, and housing into a single unified structure. The cameras are mounted on the detector housing, and the displays are incorporated into the housing, merging multiple functions (structural support, image capture, and image display) into one integrated system, thereby reducing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to user guiding during X-ray imaging. In order to provide further guidance during X-ray imaging, a guiding device (10) for visual guidance during X-ray imaging is provided. The guiding device (10) comprises a camera arrangement (12), a display arrangement (14) and a housing structure (16). The housing structure comprises a housing (18) of an X-ray imaging system for housing an X-ray source or an X-ray detector. Further, the camera arrangement is configured to capture image data of a region of interest of a subject in front of the housing. Furthermore, the display arrangement is configured to present the captured image data as a live presentation of the region of interest. Still further, the camera arrangement is mounted to the housing on a first side (20) of the housing, and the display arrangement is mounted to the housing on a second side (22) of the housing, the second side being at least one of the group of lateral and opposite to the first side. Hence, the display arrangement is configured to provide a presentation comprising live images from the first side to a user located on the second side of the housing.