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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190236 | Tourniquet for magnetic resonance angiography, and method of using same There are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions. A thigh compression device and technique to control, time, delay and/or prevent excessive early venous enhancement relative to arterial enhancement and thereby im... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187186 | Ultrasonic diagnosis of myocardial synchronization An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging method and system are described for detecting abnormalities in the synchronicity of heart wall stimulation. Points on opposite sides of a chamber of the heart are identified in a starting ultrasound image, then tracked through at lea... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190240 | Human cavity gas measurement device and method A device and method for gas measurements in body cavities are provided. These may be any body cavity containing a free gas, where there is an interest in detecting and/or measuring the concentration of said free gas by non-invasive or minimally invasive method. Acco... | 05/29/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8175687 | Light source for fluorescence diagnosis and photodynamic therapy Disclosed herein is a light source device for fluorescence diagnosis and photodynamic therapy comprising: a plurality of light source means having a wavelength range different from each other and providing selected light; a light path coupling means coupling light e... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172755 | Fractional delay filter-based beamformer apparatus using post filtering A beamforming apparatus is provided for improving beamforming accuracy by employing fractional delay filters in an interpolation process and reducing hardware complexity by using post-filtering technique. The beamforming apparatus of the present invention includes a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172754 | Ultrasonograph An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section for driving an ultrasonic probe to transmit an ultrasonic wave toward a measuring region of a subject, including an arterial vascular wall; a receiving section for... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172747 | Balloon visualization for traversing a tissue wall Systems and methods for controllably traversing a tissue wall. In one embodiment, a distal end of a catheter is positioned and/or repositioned utilizing direct visualization out the distal end of the catheter, as facilitated by an imaging element disposed within the... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175690 | Optical device for assessing optical depth in a sample An optical device for assessing optical depth in a sample illuminated by polarized radiation from a source include two radiation guides having their end portions arranged for capturing reflected radiation from the sample. A detector measures two polarizations of the... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175676 | Generating gating signals for thermal therapy A method of inducing thermal effect at a moving target includes receiving a first data characterizing a repeated motion of the moving target; processing the first data to determine a treatment plan, including determining a plan for directing a signal at the moving t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170650 | Implantable tissue perfusion sensing system and method A medical device for sensing cardiac events that includes a plurality of light sources capable of emitting light at a plurality of wavelengths, and a detector to detect the emitted light. A processor generates an ambient light measurement in response to ambient ligh... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8157739 | Ultrasound imaging with synthetic receive aperture and wide aperture, focused transmit beam A method and an instrument for ultrasound imaging using an array of transducer elements which is connected to the instrument with a limited number of wires, where focusing of the transmit beam improves image signal to noise ratio above state of the art methods. This... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157736 | System and method for feature detection in ultrasound images A system and method for feature detection in ultrasound images is disclosed. The method estimates speckle distributions in windows on opposing sides of a pixel of an ultrasound image. The divergence is calculated for the pixel between the estimated speckle distribut... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160205 | Robotic arm for patient positioning assembly A robotic patient positioning assembly including a patient treatment couch, and a robotic arm coupled to the patient treatment couch. The robotic arm is configured to move the patient treatment couch along five rotational degrees of freedom and one substantially ver... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152729 | Two-dimensional array ultrasonic probe A two-dimensional array ultrasonic probe is provided with a two-dimensional ultrasonic array and a surface protection layer provided on the array. The two-dimensional ultrasonic array arranges a plurality of piezoelectric vibration elements two-dimensionally. The su... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154612 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for image processing, for color classification, and for skin color detection Embodiments include a method of image processing including decomposing a reflectance spectrum for a test surface into a linear combination of reflectance spectra of a set of test targets. The coefficient vector calculated in this decomposition is used to predict a r... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147410 | Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging and elasticity measurement A method for performing ultrasound imaging and elasticity measurement, the method includes scanning an object to obtain a B-mode ultrasound image, selecting an A-mode signal from the B-mode ultrasound image, transmitting a high frame rate ultrasound signal, by a sel... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145294 | Method and apparatus for quantifying tissue histology Method of analysing at least one parameter of a body component is provided. The method includes illuminating the component or body with light of at least a first and second waveband, receiving light of at least said first and second wavebands remitted by the compone... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137281 | Structure for attaching needle guide to ultrasound probe A structure for attaching a needle guide to an ultrasound probe is provided, which includes a probe casing and a needle guide. The probe casing includes a head part provided at a front side of the probe casing and a grasping part provided at a back side of the probe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137278 | System and method for spatial compounding using phased arrays The present invention is directed to a system and method which makes a phased array look like a curved array for purposes of performing spatial compounding calculations. In one embodiment, the phased array is treated as though it were a curved array by creating both... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137272 | Ultrasonic synthetic transmit focusing with a multiline beamformer An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces an image with an extended focal range by transmitting a plurality of beams spaced along an array for multiline reception. The receive multilines of a plurality of transmit beams are spatially aligned and are combined ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135451 | Patient support table for a magnetic resonance system having a strong magnetic field and a magnetic resonance system including such a patient support table A patient support table for a magnetic resonance system with a magnetic field generation device creating a magnetic field of 7 T or more, comprising a table plate able to be moved into and out of the patient chamber of the magnetic resonance system by means of a dri... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133182 | Multi-dimensional transducer array and beamforming for ultrasound imaging The electrodes for a CMUT are split to provide separate transmit and receive bias and alternating current electrodes. The transmit electrodes of different elements are interconnected, such as rows sharing bias and columns sharing transmit alternating signals. The bi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135447 | Optical biological information measuring apparatus, optical biological information measuring method, biological information decision apparatus, program and recording medium An optical biological information measuring apparatus includes a measuring surface to be placed on the surface of a living body, a mark display section which displays a mark at a region to be measured on the surface of the living body, a light-emitting section which... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135454 | Diagnosing and performing interventional procedures on tissue in vivo A catheter for diagnosing and performing an interventional procedure on tissue has an elongated catheter shaft, and optical fibers, extending through the catheter shaft, for transmitting light to tissue located at a distal end of the catheter and conveying light bac... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131346 | Apparatus and method for implanting a preloaded localization wire An apparatus for percutaneously implanting a localization wire into a tissue mass comprises a cannula with a preloaded localization wire. An actuator is provided to effect the relative movement of the cannula and localization wire such that a distal end of the local... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126537 | Method and apparatus for a multi-modality imaging system An apparatus for examining a patient is provided. The apparatus includes a top plate, at least one top rail slideably coupled to said top plate, said top plate selectively positionable between a first imaging position and a second imaging position along an examinati... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118742 | Intravascular ultrasonic catheter arrangements Apparatus for intravascular ultrasonic imaging comprises a catheter having an ultrasonic transducer array fabricated at least in part from an electrostrictive material, wherein the electrostrictive material is non-polymeric. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121666 | Image observation apparatus An image observation apparatus comprising an image display unit for displaying an observation image and a supporting mechanism for supporting the image display unit movably and adjustably in the directions of three, substantially perpendicular axes. Since the suppor... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118744 | Methods, systems and computer program products for ultrasound shear wave velocity estimation and shear modulus reconstruction Methods for determining a mechanical parameter of a sample include detecting shear waves that have been generated in the sample by an applied shear wave source. A time of peak displacement of the shear waves for a plurality of sample positions is determined. At leas... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116838 | Medical device for diagnosing pressure ulcers Medical device or instrument for diagnosing pressure ulcers using optical reflectance spectroscopy. The device may comprise a tip and a controller. The tip is pressed against the skin of the patient and collects the optical reflectance data. The controller processes... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109876 | Noninvasive technique for identification of structural integrity of Bjork Shiley convexo-concave mechanical heart valves The present invention is a non-invasive method and apparatus to determine the structural integrity of an implanted BSCC by insonifying the implanted heart valve with a megahertz frequency to cause the structural components of the heart valve to vibrate at a kilohert... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103331 | Systems and methods for in-vivo optical imaging and measurement Disclosed are methods and systems for: (i) sequentially illuminating a specimen with different spatial distributions of light, wherein each illumination causes an object embedded in the specimen to emit radiation in response to the light; (ii) for each different spa... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096951 | Transmit beamforming in 3-dimensional ultrasound An ultrasound system comprises a probe including a two-dimensional (2D) array of transducer elements that form an aperture having a plurality of receive elements that are configured to receive ultrasound signals. The transducer elements form at least one transmit su... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099150 | MRI-compatible head fixation frame with cooperating head coil apparatus A head support assembly includes a base configured to be removably secured to an MRI scanner gantry, a head support frame attached to the base, and a longitudinally extending head coil apparatus adjustably secured to the head support frame. The head support frame in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099153 | Method for three-dimensional localization of an instrument for an interventional access and associated device The invention relates to a method for three-dimensional localization of an instrument for an interventional access, comprising: creating a three-dimensional image recording covering a region of the intervention and surroundings; determining local attenuation values ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095200 | System and method for using a haptic device as an input device The invention generally pertains to a combination of a haptic device with a computer-assisted surgery system. The haptic device may be used as an input device, allowing information to pass from the user to the computer-assisted surgery system, and providing function... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088073 | Device for the application of acoustic shock waves A device, in particular a therapy device, for the application of acoustic shock waves aimed at a region to be treated in a human or animal body and comprising a housing with a coupling surface for coupling the shock waves into the body to be treated, a shock wave ge... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090428 | Spinal midline indicator A spinal midline indicator (10) has a body (14) of radiolucent material for insertion between adjacent vertebrae (18, 20) and a radiographic marker (12) located centrally with the body to indicate the position of the spinal midline (22... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088084 | Method and apparatus for repair of intervertebral discs A method of repairing an intervertebral disc of a patient's body includes identifying a target area of the intervertebral disc. An ultrasound generator is placed proximate the target area and outside the patient's body. An area temperature at the target area is moni... | 01/03/2012 |
