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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| 20120083690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING AND THERAPEUTICS USING SPECIALIZED NANOPARTICLES Various systems and methods utilizing composite nanoparticles or other specialized nanoparticles in the context of electromagnetic tomography are described. A method for electromagnetic imaging includes imaging a biological tissue via an electromagnetic tomography syste... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20110275933 | MOTION COMPENSATION IN NUCLEAR IMAGING The invention relates to methods and systems for compensating for respiratory motion of individuals during nuclear imaging. In some embodiments, the methods include obtaining data representing a reference respiratory state for the individual and obtaining data that repr... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110040178 | METHOD FOR 3-D DATA COLLECTION WITH A BIPLANE C-ARM SYSTEM WITH BIPLANE ACQUISITION MULTIPLEXING A method for collecting three-dimensional data of an object from a series of projection images recorded by a biplane C-arm system is provided. A cardiac activity is recorded. The cardiac frequency and a start cardiac phase are determined for calculating parameters of th... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110009743 | DYNAMIC RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE OBTAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS A method and apparatus for obtaining a dynamic radiographic image with enhanced resolution, in which an electrocardiogram of a subject is obtained, and five time phases are allocated to each cardiac beat period (1 second). The initial X-ray irradiation is performed at 1... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100137709 | Test Object For The Validation of Tracking In The Presence of Motion A target motion simulator system for use in verifying target tracking with a radiation therapy device. The system comprises a radiation detection target coupled to a first motion actuator simulating a first motion of a first tissue and a fiducial coupled to a second mot... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100086099 | 3D MEDICAL ANATOMICAL IMAGE SYSTEM USING 2D IMAGES A medical imaging system generates 3D anatomical images from acquired 2D anatomical images. The system includes a synchronization processor for providing a synchronization signal identifying a particular phase of heart operation of a particular patient. An image acquisi... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090221912 | Imaging and analysis of movement of erythrocytes in blood vessels in relation to the cardiac cycle Apparatus (2) is provided, including a heartbeat measurement device (3), which senses a cardiac parameter of a patient and generates a cardiac parameter signal responsively thereto. An optical measurement device acquires data by emitting towards tissue of ... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20080275337 | BREATHING DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD A device is disclosed for remote monitoring of breathing movements of a patient, comprising a sender transmitting a microwave signal toward the patient, a receiver arranged to receive a signal reflected by the patient, and a processor. The processor mixes the received s... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080221445 | Gated optical coherence tomography (OCT) environmental chamber Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with gated optical coherence tomography (OCT) are described. One example method includes generating an image control signal to control an OCT apparatus to acquire an image of an embryonic heart at a specified point in t... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080039719 | Method for determining an optimal trigger time and device for ECG-triggered recording of an object There is described a method for determining an optimal trigger time for an ECG-triggered recording of an object. In this respect, a time sequence of dynamic images is firstly acquired with simultaneous recording of an ECG signal, then a time in the cardiac cycle is assi... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070270689 | Respiratory gated image fusion of computed tomography 3D images and live fluoroscopy images A system and method is provided directed to improved real-time image guidance by uniquely combining the capabilities of two well-known imaging modalities, anatomical 3D data from computer tomography (CT) and real time data from live fluoroscopy images provided by an ang... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070055145 | Methods and apparatus for nuclear tomo-cardiology scanning Methods and systems for nuclear tomo-cardiology scanning are provided. A patient monitoring system is provided that includes a patient monitoring unit attached to a stationary portion of an imaging scanner and a plurality of leads connected to an interface on a moving p... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20060287594 | Method and device for improved ECG triggering The invention relates to a method and a device for improved imaging by means of ECG triggering. A first trigger time A and a second trigger time B, as well as a threshold value for the heart rate variability is determined with the method according to the invention. The ... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060235295 | Method for movement-compensation in imaging In a method for mathematical compensation of a periodic movement of an organ in a first image-generation method used to image said organ, two time series of three-dimensional image data are acquired using gating, one by the first image-generation method and one by the s... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060129044 | Device for monitoring anatomical imaging unit or a radiotherapy unit The invention concerns a device for monitoring an imaging or radiotherapy unit (1) for treading members of the human body subject to displacements related to movements of the diaphragm. The invention is characterised in that said monitoring device is designed to ... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060079763 | Backprojected patient multimedia display An apparatus for prompting a patient includes a structure configured to be mounted to a patient support, a screen coupled to the structure, and a projector located at a distance away from the screen. A method of prompting a patient that is being supported on a patient s... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060074305 | Patient multimedia display An apparatus for prompting a patient includes a structure configured to be mounted to a patient support, an image source, and a screen coupled to the structure, wherein the screen is positionable relative to the image source. A method of prompting a patient that is bein... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060004547 | Method and system for predictive physiological gating of radiation therapy A method and system for physiological gating for radiation therapy is disclosed. A method and system for detecting and predictably estimating regular cycles of physiological activity or movements is disclosed. Another disclosed aspect of the invention is directed to pre... | 01/05/2006 |
| 20050187465 | Nuclear medical diagnostic equipment and data acquisition method for nuclear medical diagnosis A nuclear medical diagnostic equipment wherein radiation which is emitted by a nuclide administered into the body of a patient is detected as projection data by a gamma camera, and an image which indicates the distribution of the nuclide within the body of the patient i... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050187464 | Respiratory referenced imaging Methods, systems and devices are presented that provide improved medical diagnostic and intervention procedures such as magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac imaging, cardiac nuclear scintigraphy, computed tomography, echocardiography, imaging to direct laser ablation, im... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050113671 | Method and system for estimating three-dimensional respiratory motion One or more techniques are provided for measuring the motion of an organ in three dimensions. As provided by the technique, the motion of the organ along each dimension may be determined by a suitable methodology. Where sensor-based motion measurements are suitable, one... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050113670 | Method and system for prospective gating using multiple inputs One or more techniques are provided for determining the overall motion of an organ of interest relative to a viewer or imager. Motion data is acquired for the organ of interest and/or for one or more proximate organs using sensor-based and/or image data-based techniques... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050113674 | Method and system for retrospective gating using multiple inputs One or more techniques are provided for determining the overall motion of an organ of interest relative to a viewer or imager. Motion data is acquired for the organ of interest and/or for one or more proximate organs using sensor-based and/or image data-based techniques... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050113673 | Method and system to reduce motion-related image artifacts during breath holding One or more techniques are provided for gating the acquisition or selection of image data based upon the respiration of a patient. The technique provides for the acquisition of respiratory motion data from the image system or from one or more sensor-based motion determi... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050113672 | Method and system for composite gating using multiple inputs One or more techniques are provided for determining the overall motion of an organ of interest relative to a viewer or imager. Motion data is acquired for the organ of interest and/or for one or more proximate organs using sensor-based and/or image data-based techniques... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050101858 | Method for producing CT images of a cyclically moving object to be examined A method is for producing CT images of at least one second organ cyclically excited to move by a first organ moving on its own, or examination area with rest phases and activity phases of a patient. The second organ or the examination area is scanned, preferably spirall... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050096522 | CARDIAC IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFICATION OF DESYNCHRONY OF VENTRICLES FOR BIVENTRICULAR PACING A method for quantifying cardiac desynchrony of the right and left ventricles includes obtaining cardiac acquisition data from a medical imaging system, and determining a movement profile from the cardiac acquisition data. The movement profile is directed toward identif... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050090737 | Method, apparatus and product for acquiring cardiac images A method for acquiring a cardiac image from a patient having a paced heart rhythm, an abnormal EKG, or an irregular heartbeat, is disclosed. A gated electrocardiogram signal having local maxima and minima values and trigger points is received. For a period of time, the ... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050080336 | Method and apparatus for time gating of medical images A medical imaging system is provided which includes a signal generator configured to obtain a trigger signal corresponding to a timing of interest, imaging equipment configured to obtain a plurality of images of a feature of interest, and a processor programmed to corre... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050080327 | Methods and apparatus for analysis of angiographic and other cyclical images A method for analyzing stored frames of time-stamped imaging data and time-stamped physiologic data obtained during a study of a patient during a plurality of cardiac cycles. The imaging data includes frames representative of a succession of images of the patient's hear... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050054916 | Systems and methods for gating medical procedures A method of performing physiological gating in a medical procedure includes acquiring a sequence of images having at least a first image and a second image of a target region, determining a first composite image based on the first and second images, and gating a medical... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050004443 | CARDIAC IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANNING MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY A method for planning minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) for a patient includes obtaining acquisition data from a medical imaging system, and generating a 3D model of the coronary arteries and one or more cardiac chambers of interest. One or more ... | 01/06/2005 |
