An apparatus comprising an array of polymer-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers positioned on a substrate. The substrate may be at least substantially transparent to ionizing radiation, be flexible, and/or have walls positioned thereon to protect the transducers.

A patient couch for a magnetic resonance tomography system and a magnetic resonance tomography system are provided. The patient couch includes a feed facility for radiofrequency energy having a plurality of conduction paths for feeding radiofrequency energy. The patient couch also includes a plurality of plug-in connectors for local coils having a transmit coil, and a distribution structure for the distribution of radiofrequency energy from the feed facility to the plug-in connectors.

A bed board for a diagnostic bed of a medical examination apparatus is formed in a material that includes basalt fibers. The bed board may have a bed board body composed of basalt fibers and a filler in a predetermined ratio, or may be formed by a hollow shell, composed of basalt fibers and a binder in a predetermined ratio, with the hollow shell being filled by a filler material.

An accessory kit is provided for interventional procedures using a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The accessory kit includes a patient support and an electrical connection adapter. The patient support has a first end proximal and a second end distal to the scanner. The distal end is configured to create a space to accommodate a clinician, such as narrowing of the distal end or at least one cutout on a side of the distal end. The electrical connection adapter interfaces with the scanner and a scanner table. The accessory kit is configured so that when the proximal end is extended into the scanner bore, the distal end extends outside the bore. The narrowed width and/or cutout(s) of the exposed distal end and the extended gap between the scanner and scanner table create space on at least one side of the patient support that a clinician may use to access a patient.

Arrangements described herein relate to a headset system and a method to manufacturing the headset system, the headset system including a headset configured to lay on top of a surface and to support a head of a subject when the subject is in a supine position or a reclined position, at least one probe adjustment mechanism, and a probe coupled to the at least one probe adjustment mechanism and configured to emit acoustic energy.

A radiation system employs a couch top rotatable about a yaw axis to provide non-coplanar irradiation of a patient in an O-ring type of radiation machine. The radiation machine includes a source operable to produce radiation and a housing enclosing the source. The housing defines a bore and the source is rotatable at least partially around the bore. The couch top is adapted to be rotatable about a yaw axis, thereby allowing non-coplanar irradiation of at least a portion of the patient by the source. A radiation method is also provided.

An imaging table to be supported in a cantilever state on an X-ray imaging apparatus, includes a planar body including an opening portion in a surface to be connected to the apparatus, and a coupling member to be connected to the apparatus. The planar body includes a first member forming a top surface including an X-ray irradiation surface, and a second member forming a bottom surface opposed to the X-ray irradiation surface and a standing wall portion erectly provided on an outer circumference of the bottom surface. The second member is bonded to the first member in the standing wall portion. The first member and the coupling member are bonded to each other. The first member has an aluminum-equivalent X-ray transmission dose of 0.5 mmAL or less at any point in the X-ray irradiation surface.

A surgical or exam table includes a radiolucent patient support surface; and a shelf beneath the patient support surface, wherein an x-ray panel may be supported on said shelf for x-raying a human or animal subject resting on the support surface.

Disclosed is a chest compression device. The chest compression device includes a back for supporting the back of a patient, a compression part for compressing the chest of the patient, a U-shaped support for supporting the compression part, a pair of driving parts for allowing the support and the compression part connected thereto to perform a vertical reciprocating movement, and a control part for controlling the operation of the pair of driving parts.

A patient table includes a support surface for a patient. The patient table includes a first table subunit, to provide a first surface region of the support surface; a second table subunit, to provide a second surface region; and an angle unit connected thereto, to fix a position of the first table subunit relative to the second table subunit such that the first surface region is provided in a first plane and the second surface region is provided in a second plane, intersecting the first plane at an intersection angle; and such that the support surface is secured against a change of the intersection angle upon loading of the support surface by the patient. The angle unit includes at least a first coupling element, to interact functionally with a first counter-coupling element provided on the first table subunit, to releasably connect the angle unit to the first table subunit.