| 摘要 |
A medical imaging system with increased scan productivity or throughput. The invention allows hospitals and other medical facilities to ameliorate the high cost of imaging devices such as CT or MRI scanners while improving patient care and lowering per-patient costs. A single imaging device is arranged so that pre- or post-imaging processing of one or more patients and patient tables/tabletops can be performed simultaneously with imaging of another patient. The imaging device can be stationary, while patient tables/tabletops are movably guided by tracks on both sides of the imaging device. The imaging device can also be movable relative to the patient tables/tabletops. An overhead or floor track system can be used such as a circuit, or multiple track branches that merge at a junction. Or, the imaging device can be located at the center, or outside, of a carousel on which the patient tables are loaded and unloaded.
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