US 7,458,719 B2
X-ray diagnostic apparatus
Atsushi Gotoh, Nasushiobara (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan); and Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/847,144.
Application 11/847144 is a division of application No. 11/679689, filed on Feb. 27, 2007.
Application 11/679689 is a division of application No. 11/364208, filed on Mar. 01, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-058741 (JP), filed on Mar. 03, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0297574 A1, Dec. 27, 2007
Int. Cl. H05G 1/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 378—197  [378/195] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus, comprising:
a floor rotating arm, one end of the floor rotating arm being mounted on a floor surface so as to be rotatable around a first rotation axis by means of a floor rotating arm rotating mechanism;
a stand mounted on the other end of the floor rotating arm so as to be rotatable around a second rotation axis by means of a stand rotating mechanism;
an arm holder mounted on the stand so as to be rotatable around a third rotation axis by means of a arm holder rotating mechanism;
a C-arm mounted on the arm holder so as to be slidly rotatable around a fourth rotation axis by means of a C-arm sliding mechanism;
an X-ray collimating device of an X-ray generating unit mounted on one end of the C-arm, and an X-ray detecting unit mounted on the other end of the C-arm, the X-ray collimating device and the X-ray detecting unit being rotatable around a fifth rotation axis by means of a axis rotating mechanism;
an operation unit in which operation buttons are arranged; and
a C-arm holding apparatus driving unit which supplies a driving signal to drive the floor rotating arm rotating mechanism, the stand rotating mechanism, the arm holder rotating mechanism, the C-arm sliding mechanism, or the axis rotating mechanism through an angle proportional to an operation time of the operation buttons of the operation unit,
wherein the C-arm holding apparatus driving unit supplies a driving signal to move the fifth rotation axis along a line orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the subject in accordance with an operation time of a selected button of the operation buttons of the operation unit,
the apparatus further comprising a control unit which controls the C-arm holding apparatus driving unit,
wherein the control unit controls the C-arm holding apparatus driving unit such that the fifth rotation axis moves along the line orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the subject by interlocking a rotation around the first rotation axis of the floor rotating arm with a rotation around the second rotation axis of the stand.