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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186879 | Panel support device and X-ray apparatus A panel support device for detachably supporting an X-ray receiving panel includes a support plate configured to be in contact with the surface of the panel opposite to an X-ray receiving surface of the panel while the panel is mounted, a locking member for locking ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189738 | Methods and systems for guiding clinical radiotherapy setups Radiation beam parameters are determined by manipulating a tool about a patient in order to determine a desired beam entry point and/or beam angle. In certain embodiments, a visual representation of the beam may be displayed along with images of internal and externa... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184770 | X-ray acquisition method and device for stereotactic biopsy In a method and an associated device for generation of digital x-ray image exposures of an examination subject with an x-ray source and a digital x-ray detector for a stereotactic biopsy, wherein, for one or more x-ray image acquisitions of the examination subject w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180018 | Tomographic image capturing apparatus and tomographic image capturing method A tomographic image capturing apparatus includes a radiation source for applying radiation to a subject at a plurality of different angles with respect to the subject, a radiation detector for detecting the radiation which has passed through the subject at each of t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175351 | Computer-aided detection and classification of suspicious masses in breast imagery Methods are presented that detect and classify mass-like regions exhibiting spiculated and/or dense characteristics with high sensitivity and at acceptable false positive rates. One or more suspicious masses are identified in medical imagery of the breast. In certai... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175360 | Method and system of multivariate analysis on normalized volume-wise data in the sinogram domain for improved quality in positron emission tomography studies A method and system are provided for improving the quality in positron emission tomography (PET) images. PET input data is masked using raw dynamic PET data (sinograms) as input for primary component analysis (PCA) that generates primary components which in turn are... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175362 | Display of classifier output and confidence measure in an image Systems and methods are described for displaying classifier output and confidence measure in an image. The confidence measure advantageously provides additional information to the user indicating the accuracy of the classification result. Based on the classification... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170175 | X-ray CT apparatus and a method for detecting magnetic pole position thereof An X-ray CT apparatus includes a fixed gantry having a plurality of stator coils arranged in a circle and mounted on the fixed gantry. A ring-shaped rotation frame of the CT apparatus includes a plurality of rotor magnets facing the plurality of stator coils. The CT... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170642 | Method and system for lymph node detection using multiple MR sequences A method and system for detecting lymph nodes in multiple complementary magnetic resonance (MR) sequences is disclosed. Anatomical landmarks, such as blood vessels, are extracted in a first MR sequence, such as an MR angiography (MRA) image. A search area is defined... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165268 | Material analysis based on imaging effective atomic numbers Effective atomic numbers associated with pixels in a region are received. An effective atomic number is associated with each pixel in the region. X-ray data for the region is received, and an item within the region is identified from the x-ray data. Some of the pixe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160202 | Radiographic apparatus A radiographic apparatus includes a radiation source for emitting radiation, a radiation detecting device with detecting elements arranged two-dimensionally, a radiation grid with absorbing foil strips for removing scattered radiation, a physical quantity acquiring ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155267 | Device for the X-ray analysis of a specimen, comprising an energy/angle-filtering diffraction analyser system A device for X-ray analysis of a sample (1), including: a generation system for the generation of an X-ray beam to irradiate an analysis zone of the sample, said analysis zone defining a analysis mean plane, and the X-ray beam being emitted along a direction ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155265 | Asymmetric de-populated detector for computed tomography and method of making same A computed tomography (CT) detector array includes a central region substantially symmetric about a central axis thereof and includes a first plurality of x-ray detector cells configured to acquire CT data from a first number of detector rows during a scan, wherein ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155268 | Rapid screening for lead concentration compliance by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis A method is provided for screening lead concentration compliance of objects, particularly consumer products such as toys, using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis. The measured intensity ratio of the characteristic Lα and Lβ x-rays of lead pro... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155263 | Apparatus and method for voltage modulation in X-ray computed tomography The present invention discloses a computed tomography imager comprising: an x-ray source disposed in a gantry; a detector assembly for receiving an x-ray emission from an x-ray source, the x-ray source and the detector assembly rotatable about an imaging target; an ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149988 | Use of nearly monochromatic and tunable photon sources with nuclear resonance fluorescence in non-intrusive inspection of containers for material detection and imaging Methods and systems for detecting potential items of interest in target samples, using nuclear resonance fluorescence, utilize incident photon spectra that are narrower than traditional bremsstrahlung spectra but overlap nuclear resonances in elements of interest fo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144831 | Method and apparatus for sorting materials according to relative composition Disclosed herein is a metal sorting device including an X-ray tube, a dual energy detector array, a microprocessor, and an air ejector array. The device senses the presence of samples in the x-ray sensing region and initiates identifying and sorting the samples. Aft... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131014 | Object-tracking computer program product, object-tracking device, and camera A computer performs following steps according to a program for tracking an object. Template matching of each frame of an input image to a plurality of template images is performed, a template image having a highest similarity with an image within a predetermined reg... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130900 | Computed tomography gantry rotor A rotor of a gantry of a computed tomography apparatus is produced at least in sections in a differential style from bar-shaped basic elements. Due to the differential style of the rotor, the rotation mass is reduced to a significant degree given a simultaneously ma... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126117 | Multi-beam X-ray system A multi-beam x-ray system includes an x-ray source which emits x-rays and a housing with a first part and a second part. The second part is moveable relative to the first part and includes a plurality of optics of different performance characteristics. Each optic, t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126242 | Computer program products and methods for detection and tracking of rheumatoid arthritis Methods for producing an image indicative of arthritic symptomatology are provided. The methods during a model building phase create a constrained deformable statistical template. The methods then during a runtime phase fit a plurality of loci in a digitized target ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126114 | Seven or more degrees of freedom robotic manipulator having at least one redundant joint A robotic treatment delivery system including a linear accelerator (LINAC), and a robotic manipulator coupled to the LINAC. The robotic manipulator is configured to move the LINAC along seven or more degrees of freedom, at least one of the seven degrees of freedom b... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121374 | Bands artifact reduction for cardiac CT imaging A subject is imaged at a preselected phase point (34) which occurs in one or more successive cardiac cycles as the subject moves in an examination region (16). An illumination window (94) illuminates each reconstructed voxel (A, B, C) of the sub... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121255 | Diagnostic imaging system A diagnostic imaging system includes a generation unit which generates a fluoroscopic image of X-rays that irradiate a subject, a setting unit which, when displaying the fluoroscopic image superimposed on a field image of a head mounted display, sets the display rat... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121250 | Method for calibration of a CT scanner A method for calibration of a CT comprises sequentially positioning a phantom having a non-circular cross section and a length commensurate with the extent of a detector at a plurality of positions between an X ray source and the detector array or sequentially posit... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121254 | Optical element, exposure apparatus using this, and device manufacturing method On a multilayer film mirror, a protective layer is formed having a varied composition in the depth direction. The protective layer includes an interface side layer formed on a thin film layer, i.e., the outermost layer of a multilayer film, a surface side layer prov... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116428 | Method and apparatus for assessing characteristics of liquids A method to perform security screening at an airport on hand-carried baggage. The method includes requesting passengers with hand carried baggage to remove from the baggage a container that holds a liquid and perform an x-ray inspection on the hand carried baggage a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111810 | Method for producing highly constrained ultrasound images A highly constrained image processing method is used to improve the quality, including spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), of ultrasound image frames. Ultrasound image frames are accumulated to form a composite image that contains a priori informatio... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111896 | Method and system for automatic recognition of preneoplastic anomalies in anatomic structures based on an improved region-growing segmentation, and commputer program therefor A process for the automatic recognition of anomalies in anatomical structures, as well as a processing system and a computer program for implementing the process are described, the process comprising the steps of: acquisition (1... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107588 | Radiation imaging apparatus and method of driving the same, and radiation imaging system There is provided a radiation imaging apparatus delivering an output image with a satisfactory image quality irrespective of the dosage of the X-rays incident on the detector. The radiation imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a detection un... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102967 | Goniometer The invention relates to a goniometer and a method for measuring stresses and characterizing microstructure of particles. The goniometer comprises a base (1), and a measurement head (12) including both an X-ray tube and a detector arc (11) movab... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102968 | High brightness X-ray generating device and method A high brightness X-ray generator and a high brightness X-ray generating method are provided which are able to promote an increase in X-ray brightness (i.e., an increase in an X-ray output) while suppressing an excessive increase in the cost of optical elements such... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098918 | Method and system for measuring left ventricle volume A method and system for measuring the volume of the left ventricle (LV) in a 3D medical image, such as a CT, volume is disclosed. Heart chambers are segmented in the CT volume, including at least the LV endocardium and the LV epicardium. An optimal threshold value i... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094783 | Method and system for performing materials analysis with reflected inelastic scatter A method for performing materials analysis of an object using an X-ray system includes generating an X-ray beam using an X-ray source having an anode and acquiring a scatter spectrum from Compton scatter produced when the X-ray beam interacts with the object. The sc... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090169 | System and method for detecting items of interest through mass estimation A system and method for identifying an object based on its estimated mass. In one aspect, a method for estimating a mass of an object is provided. The method includes acquiring image data including a plurality of image elements, calculating a histogram based on the ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086061 | Image processing device and image processing method An image-data reading unit reads image data stored after radiation irradiation is performed from a radiation detector. An offset-data reading unit reads offset data in a case in which no radiation irradiation is performed from the radiation detector. After radiation... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086012 | Methods and apparatus for determining body weight and fat content using computed tomography data Methods and apparatus for determining body weight and fat content using computed tomography data are provided. One method includes acquiring a pre-scan image using a computed tomography imaging system and segmenting the pre-scan image into pixels representing imaged... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085899 | Treatment planning system and method for radiotherapy A treatment planning method and system for optimizing a treatment plan used to irradiate a treatment volume including a target volume, such as a tumor, is disclosed. According to the method, two dose calculation algorithms are used to develop the optimized treatment... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085896 | Rigid computed tomography rotor and method for the manufacture thereof A rotor for a gantry of a computed tomography apparatus, as well as a manufacturing method for such a rotor. The rotor according to the invention is produced at least in segments from a composite material with polymer matrix that is reinforced with fibers. The rotor... | 12/27/2011 |
| RE43036 | Filter for extreme ultraviolet lithography An apparatus, suited, for example, for extreme ultraviolet lithography, includes a radiation source and a processing organ for processing the radiation from the radiation source. Between the radiation source and the processing organ a filter is placed which, in the ... | 12/20/2011 |
