摘要 |
A support for a patient, such as a chair, table or the like, is movably mounted on a track to slide horizontally, or move up and down, the track itself being rotatable within a ring-like frame forming a common structural support for the patient supporting device, as well as for an X-ray examining system including an X-ray source and an X-ray receiver, so as to position the patient to have the region of the patient's body to be examined at the center of the ring-shaped structure. The X-ray examining device itself is mounted on a two-axis gimbal, having its center of rotation coincident with the center of the ring-shaped structure, so that the same region of the patient's body can be examined from all angular positions in three dimensions, that is, can be spherically examined.
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