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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8345823 | X-ray image diagnosing apparatus, and controlling method of X-ray image diagnosing apparatus An X-ray image diagnosing apparatus has a radiating unit, a placement unit, a detecting unit, a supporting unit, a moving control unit, an obtaining unit, a calculating unit, and a frame rate control unit. The placement unit is placeable an object. The supporting un... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8265224 | System for adjusting angiographic X-ray imaging parameters based on image content An Angiographic X-ray imaging system includes a detector for automatically detecting a transition between different phases of contrast enhanced blood flow in vessels of a portion of patient anatomy, in response to pixel luminance content of at least one image of a s... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8254522 | Dynamic image capturing control apparatus and dynamic image capturing system A dynamic image, of a quality required for diagnosis that does not increase the radiation dosage of a person being imaged, can be captured by a dynamic imaging system that includes an imaging console which has a control unit. The control unit analyzes at least one o... | 08/28/2012 |
| 7991117 | Apparatus and method to facilitate dynamically adjusting radiation intensity for imaging purposes An x-ray-based radiation imaging apparatus (200) for use in imaging an object (201) can comprise a source of x-rays (202) having an output radiation intensity control input and a radiation intensity controller (207) operably coupled there... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986769 | Radiographic image detection apparatus and method for controlling the apparatus A region of interest is set in a state in which a subject is positioned in front of a radiographic image detector. Further, judgment is made as to whether a defect region is present in the region of interest. If the defect region is present in the region of interest... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7844029 | X-ray diagnostic apparatus An X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray generating unit which generates X rays, an X-ray detecting unit which detects X rays transmitted through a subject, an X-ray exposure operating unit which is operated by an operator, and a system control unit which con... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839975 | X-ray computerized tomography apparatus, breathing indication apparatus and medical imaging apparatus An X-ray computed tomographic apparatus includes a gantry 100 including an X-ray tube 101 which generates X-rays and an X-ray detector 103 which detects X-rays transmitted through a subject to be examined, a reconstruction device 114 whic... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7720198 | X-ray facility A controller for an X-ray device and an X-ray device with such a controller are provided. The X-ray device includes an X-ray generator, connected to the controller and at least one camera, connected to the controller. The controller is embodied to receive image data... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7706504 | X-ray diagnostic apparatus An X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray generating unit which generates X rays, an X-ray detecting unit which detects X rays transmitted through a subject, an X-ray exposure operating unit which is operated by an operator, and a system control unit which con... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7664227 | Intelligent adaptive x-ray imaging system A method and an arrangement for an intelligent adaptive x-ray imaging system, in which the exposure conditions of the object to x-rays is dynamically controlled and optimized in real-time in order to provide the optimum diagnostic information. The arrangement splits... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7623628 | Cardiac gating for dual-energy imaging Methods are provided for cardiac gating of multiple-energy projection radiographic imaging utilizing an apparatus that measures the patient's peripheral blood perfusion. The choice of methods is dependant on the patient's heart rate and the delays inherent in the im... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7545912 | X-ray unit An X-ray unit according to the invention has a first arrangement (2) that is intended for the contactless and X-ray free measurement of first data of an object (1). A control unit (3) controls, on the basis of the first data of the object, a sec... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7529342 | Device and method for producing images of the heart The invention relates to a device and a method for producing an image of the heart (5), in which the image is preferably three-dimensional and is reconstructed from a series of X-ray projection pictures from various projection directions. In this connection, ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7508913 | Method or x-ray device for creating a series of recordings of medical x-ray images of a patient who might possibly be moving during the recording of the series of images The invention relates to a method or x-ray device for creating a series of two-dimensional medical x-ray images to be related to each other in an evaluation of a patient with initially a first x-ray image and subsequently a further x-ray image being created, a devia... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7496175 | X-ray diagnostic apparatus and image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which stores the data of a plurality of images in an angiography sequence, and a computation unit which generates a reference time density curve concerning a reference region set in a blood supply region to a blo... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492864 | Methods and apparatus for range based X-Ray attenuation Methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatically setting an X-Ray strength based at least in part on the volume of an object. Lasers are used to measure distances to the object. Using the measured distances, a volume of the object to be X-Rayed is estimated. Us... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7471767 | Systems and methods for determining image acquisition parameters An x-ray imaging system that constantly evaluates and determines optimal image acquisition parameters, such as frame rate and pulse length, based on the application and motion detection during an x-ray acquisition scene, and applies optimal image acquisition paramet... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7460641 | X-ray image taking device An X-ray detector for drive timing setting is provided outside an image taking region of a sensor unit. Thus, an X-ray image taking device is constructed such that a case structure is simple and a preferable image which is not affected by back-scattering can be capt... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7421061 | Method and medical imaging system for compensating for patient motion The present invention relates to a method and also an imaging system to compensate for patient motion when recording a series of images in medical imaging, in which a number of images of an area under examination of a patient (17) are recorded at intervals wi... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7406148 | Method for imaging with the aid of a multirow computed tomograph A method is for imaging with the aid of a multirow computed tomograph. A volume scan of an examination area of a patient is carried out, with the injection of a contrast medium, at a scanning speed in a scanning direction in order to reconstruct one or more images o... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7376214 | Method and apparatus to image an organ A method is provided to image an organ of the human or animal body using and acquisition device rotating over an angle, in that the rotation speed of the rotating acquisition device is modulated dependent on a reference signal that represents a current movement stat... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371007 | Method for pre treatment verification in radiation therapy Dose distribution is measured in a patient-shaped phantom with high accuracy for radiation therapy treatment verification. A detector configuration in such a phantom and improvements in measurement methodology enable application of correction factors in an accurate ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372945 | Method and device for the recording of objects The invention relates to the recording of an object (4) by imaging with a radiation source (2) on a recording medium (3) using aperture (6), the size of which may be adjusted using adjusting means (7), depending on the size of said... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372935 | Method for minimizing image artifacts and medical imaging system The invention relates to a method for “truncation correction” in an x-ray system, i.e. a correction method during the reconstruction of projection images of an object recorded from different projection angles, if parts of the object do not lie in the field of vi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369639 | Method and tomography unit for taking tomographic pictures of a beating heart A method and a tomography unit are disclosed for taking tomographic pictures of a patient's beating heart, in particular X-ray CT pictures. In such a method and tomography unit, only detector data or image data of a portion of the cardiac phase from one or more hear... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367953 | Method and system for determining a period of interest using multiple inputs One or more techniques are provided for identifying a period of minimal motion for an organ of interest, such as the heart or lungs. Motion data is acquired for the organ of interest and for one or more proximate organs using sensor-based and/or image-based techniqu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366333 | Method and apparatus for selecting regions of interest in optical imaging There is provided a method and system for positioning a mammal for optical imaging in which a digital image of the mammal is obtained using a camera and a region of interest is selected using the digital image. The selected region is registered with an optical imagi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358732 | System, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for providing real-time motion correction by utilizing clover leaf navigators A system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for correcting for a motion of an object are provided. In this system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium, the navigator data and map data can be obtained for the object. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356112 | Computed tomography scanning Artifacts in the reconstructed volume data of cone beam CT systems can be removed by the application of respiration correlation techniques to the acquired projection images. To achieve this, the phase of the patients breathing is monitored while acquiring projection... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352887 | Scatter rejection for composite medical imaging systems Scatter effects are reduced in a radiographic imaging device, such as a digital slot scan mammographic imaging device, by reducing detected scatter and processing detector information to compensate for scatter effects. In one embodiment, a digital mammographic imagi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349564 | Imaging internal structures An apparatus, method and software module for selecting phase-correlated images from the output of a scanner such as a cone beam CT scanner operates by collapsing the images derived from the series from two dimensions to one dimension by summing the intensities of pi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348563 | Tomography imaging apparatus A tomography imaging apparatus comprises: a light source that emits light having a low interferable performance; a light irradiation optical system constituted to split the light emitted from the light source into two, irradiate one of the split light to a subject a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349522 | Dynamic radiation therapy simulation system A system for dynamic treatment simulation for radiotherapy. Software is implemented on a computer system to perform dynamic simulation by displaying every segment of dynamic treatment beams on top of real-time fluoroscopic image sequences. Automated distortion corre... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343039 | System and process for generating representations of objects using a directional histogram model and matrix descriptor A system and process for determining the similarity in the shape of objects is presented that generates a novel shape representation called a directional histogram model. This shape representative captures the shape variations of an object with viewing direction, us... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343189 | Method and device for placing a patient repeatedly into the same relative position The invention relates to a method for repositioning a patient in a diagnostic/therapeutic system, as well as to such a system, wherein a repeated, accurate repositioning is achieved by producing difference images from a reference image and a current image, each in t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340034 | Image photographing apparatus and method An image processing method generates a small number of still images from a plurality of projected time-series images obtained in time series. The method includes storing the time-series images and performing subtraction between a value of a pixel of an entire or a p... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327826 | X-ray imaging apparatus and operating method therefor, with subject thickness-dependent use of a scattered ray grid In order to achieve a particularly good image sharpness, in a method and apparatus for radiological imaging of an examination subject, a digital x-ray detector is arranged behind the subject and a scattered-ray grid is positionable between the subject and the x-ray ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313219 | Radiation image pick-up device, radiation image pick-up method and program To provide a radiation image pick-up device capable of obtaining a plurality of tomography images through single-time image pick-up, a radiation image pick-up method and a program. When a position controller moves an X-ray source to an optional tomography pla... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302038 | Correction of patient rotation errors in radiotherapy using couch translation Compensation for patient rotation between planning and treatment in a radiation therapy machine is provided by angled translation of a table surface on which the patient is supported without actual patient rotation. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295692 | Process and apparatus for detection of the cardiac cycle A process for cardiac movements to be used with a radiography apparatus (1) wherein acquiring of a series of successive images In of the region of the heart, an analysis of at least some of the images thus acquired to identify a heart movement; and... | 11/13/2007 |
