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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184776 | Filter and X-ray imaging apparatus using the filter A filter includes a plurality of filter plates for adjusting X-ray energy spectrum, a plurality of rails for fixedly supporting the filter plates, a plurality of cams which are respectively provided with a groove curve on a surface thereof, a driving wheel for drivi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182427 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and ultrasonic imaging method An ultrasonic imaging apparatus captures a plurality of B-mode images of a same cross section respectively by a plurality of linear scans with different directional ultrasonic beams and creates and displays a compound image from the plurality of B-mode images. The u... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182426 | Docking station and ultrasonic diagnostic system An ultrasonic diagnostic system has a tablet type electronic device for ultrasonic diagnosis and a docking station for mounting thereto the electronic device removably. The docking station includes a receptacle section against which one side of the electronic device... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182148 | X-ray detector system An X-ray detector system includes a detector and a mounting apparatus for mounting the detector, the detector comprising a cable comprising a first end and a second end, the first end connected to the detector and the second end coupled to the mounting apparatus, th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8155404 | Image display apparatus, image display method and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus An image display apparatus which displays a form image indicative of a form about an imaging area of a subject and a quantitative value image indicative of quantitative values measured with respect to characteristics of the imaging area, said image display apparatus... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138823 | Voltage generating circuit and ultrasonic diagnosing device A voltage generating circuit generates a voltage for driving an ultrasonic oscillator, and includes a multi-stage connected power supply circuit without a transformer. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8128567 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes an image obtaining unit for irradiating an imaging region and obtaining tomographic image information that draws the imaging region, an input unit for inputting scan parameter value information and a target sound pressure par... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126532 | MRI apparatus An MRI apparatus for imaging a bodily fluid flowing inside a subject includes a gradient coil which applies gradient pulses to the subject, a transmission coil which transmits RF pulses to the subject, and a control part which controls the gradient coil and the tran... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126224 | Method and apparatus for instrument tracking on a scrolling series of 2D fluoroscopic images The present invention relates to a method and system apparatus for instrument tracking on a series of images. The method relates to performing instrument tracking on an image. The method comprises collecting at least one image and computing at least one of a positio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126119 | Collimator unit, radiation detecting device, and radiodiagnostic system A pair of holding plates formed with a plurality of grooves each wider than the thickness of each collimator plate are disposed in parallel so that the respective surfaces formed with the grooves confront each other. Urging members are disposed on the holding member... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8096950 | Image processing apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a random processing device which adds independent random components to a pixel value of a pixel point on each actual frame corresponding to a given time and a pixel value of a pixel point on each actual frame corresponding to a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086009 | Method and apparatus for displaying phase change fused image To allow the correspondence between a region having different susceptibility and a tissue structure to be easily visible, a phase change weighted image is produced by use of a phase of each pixel of phase change image data and a color bar, and an absolute value imag... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8070681 | Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus It is intended to provide an ultrasonic probe permitting a reduction of a number of switching components while transmitting and receiving signals with the picture quality level held capable of being maintained. An ultrasonic the probe comprises transducers, transduc... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055038 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus An image processing method of performing an imaging process on an original image having a connection figure including a first figure and a second figure connected to the first figure to generate an extraction image of the first figure extracted, includes the steps o... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054078 | Parallel imaging method and MRI apparatus An object of the present invention is to obtain a composite image by a small computation amount and short process time in parallel imaging using three or more reception coils. By performing a scan using three or more reception coils and with reduced phase encoding s... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041001 | Image diagnosing apparatus and image diagnosing method With the object of enabling a subject to be imaged at an appropriate timing of shooting, an image diagnosing apparatus for shooting an image of the subject in an imaging space has a voice guidance unit which reproduces and outputs to the subject a prescribed voice g... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8030929 | Coil and MRI system A coil includes a coil element to receive MR signals with a first frequency from a subject. The coil element includes a main current path section in which an MR current arising due to electromagnetic induction of the MR signals with said first frequency flows, and a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009890 | Image display apparatus and X-ray CT apparatus The present invention aims to realize an improvement in image quality of a two-dimensional display extracted from a three-dimensional display image such as continuous tomographic images which tomographic images at a conventional scan or the like of an X-ray CT appar... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995703 | Method for controlling X-ray exposure in X-ray CT system A method for controlling automatic X-ray exposure in an X-ray CT system includes establishing a correspondence table or function relationship between a ratio factor and an offset of a geometrical center of a scanned section, wherein the ratio factor represents a rat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993056 | Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe in which a first temperature sensor and a second temperature sensor are located posterior to an oscillator; and a surface temperature calculation device for calculating a surface temperature of the ult... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978895 | X-ray CT system The present invention is intended to improve the quality of a three-dimensional display image, an MPR display image, or an MIP display image presented by an X-ray CT system that performs a conventional (axial) scan, a cine scan, or a helical scan. The X-ray CT syste... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961928 | Volumetric data connecting apparatus and method A volumetric data connecting apparatus, includes a reference point determining device for having an operator determine reference points A, B and C which are not on the same straight line on first volumetric data V; a connection point a determining device for having ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959571 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic image generating method The invention provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasonic diagnostic image generating method realizing improvement in picture quality to thereby improve diagnosis efficiency in a diagnosis using images. An extracting process of extracting a sound r... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949160 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method In executing projection processing for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of diagnosis, if a threshold is reached again after a specific value of a pixel reaches the threshold in the x direction in which tomographic planes are arrayed, the execution of the proj... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949090 | X-ray CT apparatus and image reconstruction method An X-ray CT apparatus is provided for reducing the amount of computation at image reconstruction thereby to shorten an image reconstruction time. The X-ray CT apparatus comprises a cradle which moves in a horizontal direction to convey a subject to a photography spa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949088 | X-ray CT apparatus and method for processing X-ray projection data An X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray irradiation unit for applying X-rays based on a first X-ray tube voltage and X-rays based on a second X-ray tube voltage to a subject by being switched every one view, a projection data acquisition unit for acquiring projectio... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949087 | Radiography apparatus For the purpose of improving efficiency in diagnosis by performing image reconstruction for slice planes lying at the same position in a subject both in a forward direction FD and backward direction BD, an amount of positional offset ‘dz’ is acquired, which amou... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947960 | Detector panel and X-ray imaging apparatus A portable detector panel includes an X-ray detector assembly having an X-ray detecting surface on its surface, a box-like case that houses the X-ray detector assembly therein and whose upper part that is opposite to the X-ray detecting surface is X-ray transmissive... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933438 | Maximum intensity projection performing method and apparatus In order to visualize a narrow blood vessel overlapping a thick blood vessel, at the time of performing a maximum intensity projection on three-dimensional image data, three-dimensional image data is weighted with a plurality of weighting functions of different atte... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7916831 | X-ray detector and X-ray CT apparatus An X-ray detector includes a single-layered semiconductor substrate having an array of detection cells which directly convert photons of X-rays into electrical signals; a first data collecting device which collects data with respect to the array of detection cells i... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912175 | X-ray CT apparatus and X-ray CT scanning method The present invention is directed to realize an X-ray CT apparatus for properly performing contrast imaging. An X-ray CT apparatus includes an imaging unit and a control unit for controlling the imaging unit. The control unit includes: a first control unit for perfo... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907767 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method for setting shim values The invention is intended to obtain optimal shim values even if slice planes are slanted with respect to the system-inherent coordinate system. The section for setting a plane for calculating shim values sets planes perpendicular to and a plane parallel with a slice... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905837 | Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe capable of 2D scanning and 3D scanning; a transceiver device which drives said ultrasound probe to perform 2D scanning and 3D scanning of the inside of a subject with an ultrasound beam; a storage devi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7894654 | Voice data processing for converting voice data into voice playback data A voice data processing apparatus which converts voice data to voice playback data by an OLA method to correspond to a set magnification of playback velocity, including a voice data block setting device which partitions the voice data to set a plurality of voice dat... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894567 | X-ray tomography apparatus and artifact reducing method The present invention provides an X-ray tomography apparatus that positively extracts artifacts without decreasing directional resolution thereby to reduce the artifacts. The X-ray tomography apparatus includes scan device for exposing X rays to a subject while at l... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890348 | Text-based generic script processing for dynamic configuration of distributed systems The present technique provides a system and method for dynamic configuration of medical diagnostic systems using distributable multi-component configuration files having extractable component-specific configuration data. The component-specific configuration data is ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889833 | X-ray tomography apparatus and artifact reducing method The present invention provides an X-ray tomography apparatus that reduces artifacts. The X-ray tomography apparatus includes scan device for exposing X rays to a subject to create projection data of the subject, CT value change specifying device for specifying the a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888934 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus With a view to attaining a high quality of a diagnostic image there is provided a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus wherein an image is formed on the basis of magnetic resonance signals received from a subject with an electromagnetic wave transmitted thereto in a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881435 | Detector panel and X-ray imaging apparatus A portable detector panel includes an X-ray detector assembly having an X-ray detecting surface on its surface, a box-like case that houses the X-ray detector assembly therein and whose upper part that is opposite to the X-ray detecting surface is X-ray transmissive... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7874728 | X-ray imaging apparatus and portable detector panel An X-ray imaging apparatus includes: a mobile system console with an X-ray irradiator and a control circuit; and a portable detector panel with an X-ray detector, an interface electronic circuit, and a power supply battery. The system console includes an accommodati... | 01/25/2011 |
