Hugo Rost & Co.

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Hugo Rost & Co. GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1946
Seat Kiel
management Lutz Mordhorst
Branch Medical technology
Website www.hugo-rost.de

Hugo Rost & Co. GmbH , based in Kiel, is a German manufacturer of X-ray and computed tomography (CT) systems. The company develops, produces and markets these for human , veterinary and industrial applications.

Company history

Hugo Rost & Co. GmbH is one of the pioneers in German medical X-ray technology. It was founded on May 17, 1946 by the X-ray technician Hugo Rost as Hugo Rost & Co. X-ray technology in Kiel. Hugo Rost completed his apprenticeship as an orthopedic technician in the well-known company of Ernst Pohl (1923). At that time, the “Pohlschen Werkstätten” were already dealing with applications for the medical use of X-ray technology and were a meeting place for well-known inventors such as Gerhard Küntscher and Edmund Nagel.

The company founded by Hugo Rost consequently also dealt with the development and manufacture of X-ray equipment. Among other things, founder Hugo Rost was a member of the Röntgengesellschaft . In cooperation with Lothar Diethelm, the so-called “ C-arm ” was implemented for targeted X-ray diagnostics in trauma surgery . 1950 Hugo developed rust the first fixing aids from along with Mathilde Krogmann Cellon for infants and toddlers that still firmer than BABIX cases part of the product line are. The patent for this was granted on December 13, 1950. In 1954, an X-ray fluoroscopy device with image intensifier was developed for the operating room as an aid to stable osteosynthesis . Together with Heinz Grießmann , the company developed the so-called urologist table (Grießmann table), which was later also used as a gynecologist table . After Hugo Rost's death, his company was divided. Production was continued under the name Hugo Rost Röntgengerätebau and sold in 1969. Hugo Rost & Co. remained privately owned and was converted into a GmbH in 1991 . Hugo Rost has been manufacturing industrial 2D X-ray systems and 3D CT scanners since 2009. The first device to be developed was the compact desktop scanner CT50 (50 kV acceleration voltage), which in turn introduced a series of more powerful CT scanners up to the CT130 (130 kV acceleration voltage).

C-Borgen invention by Hugo Rost, 1952
C-arm invention by Hugo Rost, 1952

Research and developments

  • 2014 Ro-Wi-X, large X-ray system for material testing on large wind turbines
  • 2014–2016 HybridDentCT, based on the CT-130
  • 2019 Development of the ExtraOral Scanner (EOS). As an optical 3D scanner, it is based on the principle of photogrammetric measurement. Areas of application are in the digitization of dental impressions, inlays or bridges with an object diameter of up to 100 millimeters .
  • 2020 FaceScan, an optical 3D scanner based on the principle of photogrammetric measurement. Applications are in the field of dentistry, personalization of avatars or virtual try-on.

Approvals

Products

  • 1948 Cassette holder for sinus recordings
  • Urologist table, semolina table by Hugo Rost
    Urologist table / Grießmann table
    1952 first C-arm
  • 1954 Urologist table, a special X-ray device for urological examinations (Grießmann table)
  • 1962 BABIX cover, a special holder in which babies and toddlers can be fixed under X-ray machines and x-rayed
  • 2009 CT 50, industrial X-ray computed tomography device for NDT geometry testing
  • 2016 CT130, industrial X-ray computed tomography device for material testing NDT

Known employees

  • Hugo Rost (1904–1965) was the founder of the company and a pioneer in the development of X-ray equipment.
Computed tomograph with strip light scanning as a hybrid device
CT-130, computer tomograph with strip light scanning as a hybrid device

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiel list of scholars. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
  2. ^ Mathilde Krogmann: Children come to the X-ray, A contribution to modern X-ray diagnostics in children . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1965, p. 32-35 .
  3. ^ Theodor Laubenberger: Technology of medical radiology diagnostics, radiation therapy, radiation protection for doctors, medical students and MTR; with instructions for radiation protection in X-ray diagnostics . 5th edition Cologne 1990, ISBN 978-3-7691-1094-4 , pp. 288 .
  4. ↑ Marianne Zimmer-Brossy, Susanne Bošnjaković-Büscher: Textbook of X-ray diagnostic setting technology . 4., rework. Berlin 1992 edition, ISBN 978-3-540-54544-6 , pp. 361 .
  5. ↑ German Patent Office: X-ray image and fluoroscopy device. (PDF) In: German Patent Office. Retrieved April 26, 2021 .
  6. ↑ CT50. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Revolutionize medicine with AI. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
  8. ^ Hugo Rost & Co. GmbH - IL Innovationslabor GmbH. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
  9. ↑ RoWIX | EEW-PROTEC GmbH. Retrieved April 9, 2021 (German).
  10. ↑ SME-innovative "Innovations for tomorrow's production". (PDF) In: https://www.bmbf.de/ . Federal Ministry for Research and Education, 2016, accessed on April 26, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Preliminary work - Ki-Sigs. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
  12. ↑ TeDo Verlag GmbH: Feel the tooth. October 23, 2017, accessed April 9, 2021 (German).
  13. ↑ シ ェ イ ク 社 卓 上 型 X 線 CT ス キ ャ ナ - 製品 情報 ｜ YKT 株式会社. Retrieved April 9, 2021 .