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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43569 | Three dimensional vector cardiograph and method for detecting and monitoring ischemic events A method of determining an ischemic event includes the steps of: monitoring and storing an initial electrocardiogram vector signal (x, y, z) of a known non-ischemic condition over the QRS, ST and T wave intervals; calculating and storing a J-point of the vector sign... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8172756 | Ultrasonic imaging system and method The present invention relates to an ultrasonic imaging system for evaluating and displaying a deformation of a body organ. A sequence of image data sets comprising at least a first image data set and a second image data set of echographic data is acquired. A motion ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8142358 | Measurement method of time varying events in a target body and a method for displaying measurement data of different parameters of a target in which time dependent events occur A measurement method of time varying events in a target body, including the steps of (a) providing time dependent measurements signals of parameters of the time varying events in the target body, (b) providing ecographic M-mode image data whose spatial direction is ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8092388 | Automated view classification with echocardiographic data for gate localization or other purposes A view represented by echocardiographic data is classified. A probabilistic boosting network is used to classify the view. The probabilistic boosting network may include multiple levels where each level has a multi-class local structure classifier and a plurality of... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7854702 | Phase selection for cardiac contrast assessment In one embodiment, at least one visual characteristic from a selected image is used to automatically select an ultrasound image from a set of images from a plurality of heart cycles. In another embodiment, motion correction is performed on ultrasound images that are... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7828735 | Methods for providing diagnostic information using endocardial surface data for a patient's heart Methods for providing diagnostic information using endocardial surface data for a patient's heart are described herein. In some embodiments, endocardial surface data for the left ventricle of a heart is received. The endocardial surface data represents the endocardi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7717852 | Method and device for determining the motion vector tissues in a biological medium The invention relates to a method of determining the motion vector of tissues in a biological medium. This method comprises the steps of: —acquiring a sequence of echographical images at a given repetition rate, —digitalising said echographical images and storin... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7695439 | Automated identification of cardiac events with medical ultrasound Automated analysis of ultrasound data is provided to extract event times, such as valve opening and closing times. Different types of ultrasound data, such as B-mode, M-mode, tissue velocity or flow velocity, are processed by a processor to identify automatically th... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7678052 | Method and apparatus for detecting anatomic structures An anatomic structure is detected based on a medical diagnostic imaging data set. The anatomic structure comprises at least two different types of tissue. At least one anatomic landmark is identified within the data set, the data set is overlaid with a contour templ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7497829 | Data recording system A ring buffer records image data output from an ultrasound diagnosis device in units of frames. A user identifies, on an image, occurrence of a target symptom while viewing a cross sectional image which is displayed in real time and inputs an end trigger immediately... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7422561 | Ultrasonographic system and ultrasonography An ultrasonic diagnostic system prepares a diagnostic data including image by transmitting ultrasonic pulses to a living tissue, and receiving and analyzing reflected wave of the ultrasonic pulses, and has an analytical processing unit to measure a backscattering in... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7404798 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus control method An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided with an ultrasonic probe driving section 2, a receiving section 5 for amplifying an ultrasonic reflected wave, a phase detecting section 6 for phase-detecting the ultrasonic reflected wave, a veloci... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7399279 | Transmitter patterns for multi beam reception Provided herein is a method for use in medical applications that permits (1) affordable three-dimensional imaging of blood flow using a low-profile easily-attached transducer pad, (2) real-time blood-flow vector velocity, and (3) long-term unattended Doppler-ultraso... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7372984 | Four-dimensional imaging of periodically moving objects via post-acquisition synchronization of nongated slice-sequences When the studied motion is periodic, such as for a beating heart, it is possible to acquire successive sets of two dimensional plus time data slice-sequences at increasing depths over at least one time period which are later rearranged to recover a three dimensional... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363174 | Apparatus and method for measuring a fluid flow rate profile using acoustic doppler effect An apparatus and method for measuring a flow velocity profile of fluid traveling in a pipe or conduit uses an ultrasonic wave transmitted from an ultrasonic wave transducer mounted at an angle on the outside of a pipe using a wedge, and made incident onto the fluid ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357798 | Systems and methods for electrosurgical prevention of disc herniations The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the spine. The present invention applies high frequency (RF) electrical energy to one or more... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359535 | Systems and methods for retrospective internal gating A method for retrospective internal gating is described. The method includes acquiring images at multiple z-locations z1 . . . zn and at different times t1 . . . tn at each of the z-locations, and reordering the images at ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333962 | Techniques to organize test results Techniques to organize test results are described. In one embodiment, for example, vectors with failure information may be generated from test result files. Nodes for a self-organizing map may be trained with multiple vectors. Vector groups may be formed for multipl... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331957 | Electrosurgical apparatus and methods for laparoscopy Electrosurgical methods and apparatus for treating tissue at a target site of a patient. An electrosurgical instrument includes a shaft, having a shaft distal end and a shaft proximal end, and an electrode assembly disposed at the shaft distal end. The electrode ass... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331956 | Methods and apparatus for treating back pain Apparatus and methods for treating back pain of a patient by denervation of an intervertebral disc or a region of the posterior longitudinal ligament by the controlled application of heat to a target tissue. In one embodiment, the invention may include a procedure c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318823 | Methods for repairing damaged intervertebral discs Apparatus and methods for treating an intervertebral disc by ablation of disc tissue. A method of the invention includes positioning at least one active electrode within the intervertebral disc, and applying at least a first high frequency voltage between the active... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7314446 | 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 c... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295714 | Image processing circuit and image processing method that prevent problems occurring in image reduction An image processing circuit reduces binary data of an original image. At least one line buffer stores data of each line of the original image. At least one line buffer stores data of each line of a reduced image. An operation part performs a logical operation based ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274831 | High quality anti-aliasing An antialiasing method and apparatus suitable for antialiasing a variety of image types, including fonts, large images, and very small images. The antialiasing technique may represent the edge of a line, curve or region as a series of line segments. These line segme... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270661 | Electrosurgical apparatus and methods for treatment and removal of tissue Apparatus and methods for ablating, severing, cutting, shrinking, coagulating, or otherwise modifying a target tissue to be treated. In a method for treating a target tissue, an active electrode of an electrosurgical probe is positioned in at least close proximity t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272241 | Method and apparatus for contour tracking of an image through a class of non linear filters A method for automatically detecting and tracking the contour of an image that uses a class of filters, obtained from the first order absolute central moment. The method provides the steps of filtering a starting image through the absolute central moment e(n,m) of t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272529 | Dual wall turbine blade ultrasonic wall thickness measurement technique A method and apparatus is provided to analyze a dual wall structure having at least one hollow core therein and having the same unknown material sound velocities in walls and in post as well. A transducer is located in at least two different positions with respect t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270658 | Systems and methods for electrosurgery Methods and apparatus for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the spine. In a method of the invention high frequency (RF) electrical energy is applied to one or more active electrodes ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265713 | Overlapping subarray architecture An embodiment of an electronically scanned array antenna includes an array of radiative elements having an array height. A plurality of separate subarrays of the radiative elements include a first row comprising a first plurality of subarrays, wherein subarrays of t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261695 | Trigger extraction from ultrasound doppler signals A trigger extraction system for obtaining an event trigger for an event occurring in a region of interest includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a trigger extraction program stored in the memory for execution by the processor. The trigger extra... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255678 | High frequency, high frame-rate ultrasound imaging system A system for producing an ultrasound image comprises a scan head having a transducer capable of generating ultrasound energy at a frequency of at least 20 megahertz (MHz), and a processor for receiving ultrasound energy and for generating an ultrasound image at a fr... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7231135 | Computer-based video recording and management system for medical diagnostic equipment A computer-based video recording and management system is provided which is used in conjunction with medical diagnostic equipment. The system allows a physician or medical personnel to record and time-mark significant events during a medical procedure on video foota... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221786 | Method for automatic construction of 2D statistical shape model for the lung regions A method for automatic construction of 2D statistical shape models for the lung regions in chest radiographic images comprising: providing a radiographic image of the chest region of an individual; by performing a manual contour tracing, extracting the lung region s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7211045 | Method and system for using ultrasound in cardiac diagnosis and therapy A method and system for estimating the volume of blood ejected from the left ventricle of the heart to a succeeding chamber/conduit, or vice-versa, while imaging the intersection of such structures is described. The process utilizes either the M-mode to estimate vol... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7175598 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus that adjusts a time phase between a plurality of image series An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprises an insonifier, a receiver, and a processor. The insonifier is configured to insonify an ultrasound to a specimen. The receiver is configured to receive an echo signal from the specimen resulting from the ultrasound. The pr... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171427 | Methods of navigating a cube that is implemented as a relational object A method and mechanism for performing an operation based on multidimensional data in a relational database. A query is generated that includes a first set of instructions to select a portion of multidimensional data for inclusion in a relational cube and a second se... | 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 |
| 7156551 | Ultrasound transducer fault measurement method and system Ultrasound transducer temperatures are measured in response to a temperature dependent property of the ultrasound transducer. The temperature is measured without addition of new electronics or hardware retrofits of the transducer. By implementing software and/or har... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153555 | Plastic objects including lenticular lens sheets A product for displaying lenticular images, comprising: an insert including a lenticular lens material; a layer of ink; a thermal protective substrate layer; and a plastic base. ... | 12/26/2006 |
