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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7393329 | Method and apparatus for delivering radiation therapy during suspended ventilation Methods and apparatus for delivering radiation therapy to patients during suspended ventilation are provided. The apparatus includes a ventilator assembly having first and second selectively operable valves that independently control inhalation and exhalation of the... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7356172 | Methods and systems for motion tracking Systems and methods are described for tracking motion in a medical imaging system. The methods use landmark sets including hard landmarks and soft landmarks. The systems can include means for generating a landmark set, means for constructing a landmark set spatial r... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347821 | Adaptive processing of contrast enhanced ultrasonic diagnostic images A method is described for automatically and accurately defining tissue borders within ultrasound imaging. A preferred embodiment described provides for accurately delineating endocardial and epicardial tissue borders during ultrasound imaging of the heart using cont... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338449 | Three dimensional locator for diagnostic ultrasound or medical imaging A location within a volume is determined from medical images. A region of interest or other location is examined from two different viewing directions. The user or processor indicates the region or point of interest in each of the different images. The desired point... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331927 | Methods and systems for medical imaging A medical imaging system includes an image sensor that receives imaging signals from a region of interest, a memory coupled to the image sensor, and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory stores image data derived from the imaging signals for first and second... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329225 | Methods, devices, systems and computer program products for oscillating shafts using real time 3D ultrasound An oscillating shaft is scanned to provide images including the oscillating shaft in vivo in real-time with a real-time three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound scanner. An interventional device can be guided in vivo using an ultrasound scanner and includes a sheath having... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322936 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, a plurality of sub arrays are defined on a 2D array transducer. The sub array shape pattern of each sub array is adaptively changed in accordance with the beam scanning direction. Each sub array is composed of a plurality of gro... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321676 | Automatic determination of the long axis of the left ventricle in 3D cardiac imaging A diagnostic imaging apparatus generates a three-dimensional diagnostic image representation. The image representation is converted into an image representation of the patient's heart. A left lower posterior point of the heart image representation is selected as a f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315787 | Multi-marker screening protocol for fetal abnormalities A method of assessing a pregnant woman's risk of having a fetus with a fetal abnormality by determining the fetus' BPD/OFD ratio and using the BPD/OFD ratio in conjunction with one or more other screening markers for the fetal abnormality. Also provided is a method ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313260 | Controlling thick-slice viewing of breast ultrasound data An adjunctive ultrasound mammography system and associated methods are described in which an ultrasound image being displayed near an x-ray mammogram image may be superimposed thereon or thereunder by a user for facilitating rapid comprehension of breast structures ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7280694 | Apparatus and method for identifying an organ from an input ultrasound image signal This invention discloses an apparatus and method for identifying an organ within a human body by calculating the distances of an input ultrasound image signal and the ultrasound image signals classified by the predetermined types of organs in a database, which is ba... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270634 | Guidance of invasive medical devices by high resolution three dimensional ultrasonic imaging A three dimensional ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is operated to guide or observe the operation of an invasive medical device (30) in three dimensions. The appearance of the invasive device (30) in the three dimensional ultrasonic image is enhan... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266174 | Radiographic inspection of airframes and other large objects A system for radiographic inspection of an object includes a radiation source located on one side of the object and a radiation detector located on another side of the object, being positioned to receive radiation from the radiation source. At least one motion senso... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7182083 | CT integrated respiratory monitor An integrated respiratory monitor and imaging device apparatus (10) is provided. The apparatus is useful for establishing pre-operative and intra-operative breath hold congruency in patients and for other interventional work. The apparatus (10) include... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171256 | Breast magnetic resonace imaging system with curved breast paddles A patient support table for breast MRI systems, the table including a base configured to slide into and out of the bore of an MRI system; a patient support member attached to the base and having a top surface shaped to support a patient in a prone position; two brea... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162065 | Prostate boundary segmentation from 2D and 3D ultrasound images A fast semi-automatic prostate contouring method is provided using model-based initialization and an efficient Discrete Dynamic Contour (DDC) for boundary refinement. The user initiates the process of the preferred embodiment by identifying four (4) points on the pr... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7131947 | Volumetric ultrasonic image segment acquisition with ECG display A three dimensional ultrasonic imaging system acquires volume segments of a wide field of view volume image in coincidence with an ECG waveform. The ECG waveforms acquired during acquisition of the volume segments are displayed in a comparative display in which a di... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130457 | Systems and graphical user interface for analyzing body images Systems and graphical user interfaces for analyzing body images. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a graphical user interface having a display coupled to a microprocessing device and a memory device. The graphical user interface has an elect... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7108658 | Method and apparatus for C-plane volume compound imaging Method and apparatus for displaying an enhanced image based on an image plane of data. A volume data set is acquired, and a plane is defined on an image based on the volume data set. The plane may be a C-plane. Data within the volume data set which is defined by the... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110583 | Ultrasonic diagnostic device and image processing device An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes an automatic contour extracting unit that contains an initial contour extracting unit for roughly extracting an initial contour of an object to be examined from an ultrasound image by performing a predetermined operation (suc... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103205 | Breast cancer screening with ultrasound image overlays An adjunctive ultrasound mammography system and associated methods are described in which an ultrasound image being displayed near an x-ray mammogram image may be superimposed thereon or thereunder by a user for facilitating rapid comprehension of breast structures ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085406 | Method and system for unsupervised transfer function generation for images of rendered volumes A method and system are provided for generating transfer functions for use in volume rendering of three-dimensional data of an object volume. The method comprises obtaining the three-dimensional data of the object volume, evaluating selected characteristics for a pl... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7043063 | Non-rigid motion image analysis A method of analysing a sequence of images of a deformable object in non-rigid motion involves modeling the boundary using a non-rigid contour. A representation of movement of the contour through the sequence of images is calculated using a tracking space shape. The... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037263 | Computing spatial derivatives for medical diagnostic imaging methods and systems Spatial derivatives are computed. In one method, gradients are determined from data in an acoustic domain rather than a Cartesian or display coordinate domain. The gradients determined from data in the acoustic domain are then transformed to the Cartesian coordinate... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033320 | Extended volume ultrasound data acquisition Three or four-dimensional ultrasound data acquisition for extended field of view imaging is provided. Multiple volumes are registered with respect to each other and spliced together to form an extended volume. The extended volume is a contiguous volume larger than a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030874 | Method of following the three-dimensional deformation of a deformable organ A method of obtaining a three-dimensional deformation of an organ which is deformable over time and extends in a three-dimensional space from at least two sets of data (DS(t1), DS(t2)) representing points of said organ and corresponding to distinct tim... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7025725 | Three-dimensional ultrasound computed tomography imaging system A three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound computed tomography (UCT) system for providing a 3-D image of a target is presented. The 3-D UCT system includes an imaging chamber having a plurality of piezoelectric elements. The plurality of piezoelectric elements are arrange... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013032 | Method and apparatus for secondary capture of 3D based images on a picture archival and communications (PACS) system An image management system (10), includes a PACS system. The PACS system (10) includes a PACS server (20) coupled to a communications network (22) and a plurality of PACS workstations (40) also coupled to a communications network (... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6991605 | Three-dimensional pictograms for use with medical images The preferred embodiments described herein relate to three-dimensional pictograms and indicators for use with medical images. In one embodiment, a three-dimensional pictogram representing anatomy shown in a medical image is displayed along with a marker that represe... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988991 | Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging method and apparatus using lateral distance correlation function Disclosed is a three-dimensional ultrasound image method and apparatus for reducing distortions of ultrasound images by precisely estimating a distance between consecutive two-dimensional frames obtained by a manual scanning. The apparatus comprises a transducer arr... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6980844 | Method and apparatus for correcting a volumetric scan of an object moving at an uneven period Method and apparatus for acquiring and processing a volumetric scan of a periodically moving object having uneven periods of time are included. A volumetric scan is performed of a periodically moving object. A time interval of a periodic movement of the periodically... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980676 | Medical imaging system An imaging system including means for transmitting a digital image, an image base, a sensor, means for referencing positions on a dummy, echographic display means, means for recalculation of a three-dimensional image, and means for receiving expert assessment result... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969354 | Adaptable intraoperative or endocavity ultrasound probe An intraoperative or endocavity ultrasound probe for insertion into a patient is provided. An adaptable or adjustable section is provided between the handle and the transducer for rotating the transducer relative to the handle prior to insertion within the patient. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968224 | Method of detecting organ matter shift in a patient A surgical instrument navigation system comprises an ultrasound machine and a computer coupled to the ultrasound machine. A memory is coupled to the computer and includes computer instructions that when executed by the computer cause the computer to generate an icon... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966878 | Method and apparatus for obtaining a volumetric scan of a periodically moving object Method and apparatus for acquiring and processing a volumetric scan of a periodically moving object. A volumetric scan is performed of the periodically moving object which repeats a cycle of movement over time. A time interval of the periodic movement of the object ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6952606 | Combined electrical impedance and ultrasound scanner An electrical impedance scanner having a probe in its contact surface [lacuna] an electrode matrix for detection of the surface distribution of the body current and/or body potentials originating from an opposing electrode which is fitted at some other point on the ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6949071 | Method for exploring and displaying tissue of human or animal origin from a high frequency ultrasound probe A method for displaying scanned ultrasound images of tissue employs an apparatus including an ultrasound probe mounted to a mechanical head. A three-dimensional positioning system mounts the head for positioning the probe in proximate orthogonal relation to the tiss... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947584 | Volume imaging system A volume imaging system which progressively constructs, analyzes, and updates three dimensional models while acquiring cross-sectional data is described. The system constructs and displays three-dimensional renderings, and performs quantitative calculations in real ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6923768 | Method and apparatus for acquiring and displaying a medical instrument introduced into a cavity organ of a patient to be examined or treated In a medical treatment/examination device and method for the acquisition and presentation of a medical instrument introduced into a cavity organ of a patient to be examined or treated, particularly in the framework of a cardial examination or treatment with a cathet... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6905468 | Three-dimensional system for abdominal aortic aneurysm evaluation A data collection device obtains three-dimensional ultrasound scan information of a portion of the abdominal aorta. A plurality of transducer elements are arranged to provide overlapping coverage. The data collection device is first positioned over the aorta by an o... | 06/14/2005 |
