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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7172594 | Electro-stimulation and medical delivery device A pedicle screw for at least partial insertion into a bone and/or cartilage. The pedicle screw includes a head and a lower portion connected to the head. The lower portion includes at least one interface that designed to at least partially discharge an electrical cu... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174201 | Position sensing system with integral location pad and position display Apparatus for performing a medical procedure on a tissue within a body of a subject includes a wireless tag which is fixed to the tissue and includes a first sensor coil. A second sensor coil is fixed to a medical device for use in performing the procedure. An integ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171257 | Apparatus and method for radiosurgery A method and system is presented for treating moving target regions in a patient's anatomy by creating radiosurgical lesions. The method includes determining a pulsating motion of a patient separately from a determining of a respiratory motion, and directing a radio... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7169144 | Apparatus and method for creating, maintaining, and controlling a virtual electrode used for the ablation of tissue The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for producing a virtual electrode within or upon a tissue to be treated with radio frequency alternating electric current, such tissues including but not limited to liver, lung, cardiac, prostate, breast, and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166852 | Treatment target positioning system A wireless treatment target positioning system for therapeutic radiation treatment includes a patient positioning system and a treatment target locating system. The treatment target locating system includes a room beam coordinate system and a localizing system. The ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166127 | Tissue fastening systems and methods utilizing magnetic guidance Catheter based systems and methods for securing tissue including the annulus of a mitral valve. The systems and methods employ catheter based techniques and devices to plicate tissue and perform an annuloplasty. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166114 | Method and system for calibrating a surgical tool and adapter thereof A method for easily calibrating both the position of the tip of a surgical tool and the orientation of that tool includes attaching a tracking device capable of communication with the surgical navigation system to the surgical tool using an adapter, where the adapte... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7160258 | Capsule and method for treating or diagnosing the intestinal tract A device and method for mapping, diagnosing and treating the intestinal tract is provided using a capsule passing through the intestinal tract. Further, a capsule tracking system is provided for tracking a capsule's location along the length of an intestinal tract a... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162293 | MR arrangement for localizing a medical instrument The invention relates to an MR arrangement which includes a medical instrument (3), an RF arrangement (17) which is provided thereon and in which at least one microcoil (1) and a capacitor (2) are connected so as to form a resonant circui... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158754 | Electromagnetic tracking system and method using a single-coil transmitter Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for electromagnetic tracking using a single-coil transmitter. The system includes a single coil transmitter emitting a signal, a receiver receiving a signal from the single coil transmitter, an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158610 | Systems and methods for processing x-ray images A method for processing x-ray images includes collecting a first x-ray image and a second x-ray image, determining a composite image based on the first and second x-ray images, collecting a third x-ray image, and adjusting the third x-ray image based on the composit... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156816 | Ultrasound pulmonary vein isolation A catheter introduction apparatus provides an ultrasound assembly for emission of ultrasound energy. In one application the catheter and the ultrasound assembly are introduced percutaneously, and transseptally advanced to the ostium of a pulmonary vein. An anchoring... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156091 | Oral airway and airway management assistive device provided with the oral airway An oral airway, which is used by being inserted into the mouth of a patient who is suffering from unconsciousness or has lost consciousness to secure an airway of the patient, is adapted to be used with a tube to be inserted into the trachea of the patient through t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149566 | Soft tissue orientation and imaging guide systems and methods Systems and methods for the orientation of soft tissue such as breast tissue for enhanced accuracy of imaging and/or procedures such as a biopsy or excision are disclosed. The system for orientating and maintaining the orientation of soft tissue generally includes a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148703 | Auto-deep scan for capacitive sensing A stud or joist sensor and associated sensing method using an amplitude and a ratio of capacitance measurements from a plurality of capacitive sensing elements. The sensor locates a feature of an object or discontinuity behind a surface or wall, such as an edge and/... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144366 | Capsule medical apparatus having evacuation detecting and notifying devices and capsule medical apparatus collecting system A capsule medical apparatus for medical actions such as examination and treatment in the body detects by a sensor or the like whether it is just being evacuated from the body or it has already been evacuated. Upon detecting the capsule medical apparatus is positione... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142905 | Visual imaging system for ultrasonic probe A non-invasive visual imaging system is provided, wherein the imaging system procures an image of a transducer position during diagnostic or therapeutic treatment. In addition, the system suitably provides for the transducer to capture patient information, such as a... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141976 | Method and control device for determining the position of a local coil on a patient table of a magnetic resonance scanner In a method and control device for determining the position in at least one spatial direction of a local coil on a patient table in a scanner of a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, a radio-frequency signal is emitted in the presence of a magnetic field gradie... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141016 | Systems and methods for monitoring gastrointestinal system In general, the invention is directed to systems and methods for monitoring the gastrointestinal system of a patient. In one embodiment, the invention includes techniques for monitoring the emptying of the patient's stomach. The techniques may employ glucose monitor... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136765 | Buried object locating and tracing method and system employing principal components analysis for blind signal detection A blind locating system for finding and tracing buried objects such as utility lines, conductive pipes and sondes. A sensor array is coupled to a signal processor, which determines a field vector for one or more buried objects by producing a data signal representing... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135978 | Miniature resonating marker assembly A miniature resonating marker assembly that includes, in one embodiment, a ferromagnetic core, a wire coil disposed around the core, and a capacitor connected to the wire coil adjacent to the magnetic core. The core, coil, and capacitor form a signal element that, w... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133714 | Magnetic resonance imaging probes A magnetic resonance probe may include a plurality of center conductors, at least some center conductors including a conductive core and an insulator disposed at least partially about the core along at least a portion of the core, a first dielectric layer disposed a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129946 | Computer-aided presentation method for a 3D subject In the borders of a computer-aided presentation method for a 3D subject, a 2D basic image of a subject and a 2D basic presentation of a 3D volume data set of the subject are determined by a computer and momentarily output as images via an output system. The basic im... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127092 | Reduction of motion artifact in NMR images using spherical navigator signals A series of fMRI image frames are acquired along with interleaved navigator signals. The navigator signals are acquired while three orthogonal readout gradients are applied such that a spherical surface is sampled in k-space. The navigator signals are analyzed to me... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127081 | Method for tracking motion of a face A method for tracking the motion of a person's face for the purpose of animating a 3-D face model of the same or another person is disclosed. The 3-D face model carries both the geometry (shape) and the texture (color) characteristics of the person's face. The shape... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126303 | Robot for surgical applications The present invention provides a micro-robot for use inside the body during minimally-invasive surgery. The micro-robot includes an imaging devices, a manipulator, and in some embodiments a sensor. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123214 | Information processing method and apparatus It is intended to solve the problem that, when an operator performs an operation using two-dimensional input means while seeing a picture frame seen from a viewpoint of the operator, an input operation is difficult to perform when the direction of the line of sight ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119814 | System and method for annotation on a moving image A system and method allows for the annotation of an image stream, which may be produced by, for example, an ingestible capsule. A workstation accepts images acquired by the capsule and displays the images on a monitor as a moving image. A user inputs an annotation w... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119810 | Graphics processing unit for simulation or medical diagnostic imaging Methods and systems provide simulation or medical diagnostic imaging with a graphics processing unit. Data to be processed by a graphics processing unit is transferred from a source to the graphics processing unit without copying by the central processing unit. For ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117027 | Method for establishing a three-dimensional representation of a bone from image data A system and method for preparing a virtual three-dimensional representation of a first portion of a bone. The method may comprise obtaining, from a first orientation with respect to the first portion of the bone, first image data of the first portion of the bone an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117026 | Physiological model based non-rigid image registration A method for non-rigid registration and fusion of images with physiological modeled organ motions resulting from respiratory motion and cardiac motion that are mathematically modeled with physiological constraints. A method of combining images comprises the steps of... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109933 | Wearable jacket having communication function, and endoscope system employing wearable jacket A wearable jacket includes a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person. The 2D-DST substrate includes a first conductive sheet, a second conductive sheet and a plurality of communication modules. The first and second conductive sheets are overlappe... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107090 | Devices and methods for presenting and regulating auxiliary information on an image display of a telesurgical system to assist an operator in performing a surgical procedure Systems and methods for performing robotically-assisted surgical procedures on a patient enable an image display device to provide an operator with auxiliary information related to the surgical procedure, in addition to providing an image of the surgical site itself... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107089 | Automated planning volume contouring algorithm for adjuvant brachytherapy treatment planning in sarcoma A mathematical contouring algorithm that automatically determines the planning volume of a sarcoma prior to designing a brachytherapy treatment plan. The algorithm, utilizing computational geometry, numerical interpolation and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104947 | Determining stimulation levels for transcranial magnetic stimulation Induced movement in a patient is detected and correlated with a TMS stimulating pulse so as to determine the patient's motor threshold stimulation level. Direct visual or audible feedback is provided to the operator indicating that a valid stimulation has occurred s... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103409 | Atrial and ventricular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and lead system A cardiac rhythm management system, such as an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), provides atrial anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy, such as a bipolar or unipolar electrical cardioversion countershock, or provides both atrial and ventricular anti-tachyarrhythm... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102508 | Method and apparatus for locating and tracking persons The invention relates to a method and apparatus for locating and tracking persons by use of an implantable device. The described invention is an implant able device composed of biocompatible materials in all areas where contact with organic tissue occurs. The gross ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7101362 | Steerable and shapable catheter employing fluid force A catheter employing fluid force to steer and/or shape the catheter. In one particular implementation, the catheter includes at least one actuating lumen operably associated with the shaft of the catheter. The at least one actuating lumen is in fluid communication w... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097357 | Method and system for improved correction of registration error in a fluoroscopic image Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved registration of image and navigation references used in image-guided operations. Certain embodiments of the system include an image acquisition device for obtaining at least one im... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096148 | Magnetic tracking system The present invention provides an electromagnetic tracking system that includes a field generator and a field sensor arranged to generate and detect, respectively, an electromagnetic field. Both the transmitter and receiver coils are connected to signal conditioning... | 08/22/2006 |
