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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7377900 | Endo-cavity focused ultrasound transducer An apparatus for delivering acoustic energy to a target site adjacent a body passage includes first and second elongate members, each carrying one or more transducer elements on their distal ends. The first and/or second elongate members include connectors for secur... | 05/27/2008 |
| 6666833 | Systems and methods for focussing an acoustic energy beam transmitted through non-uniform tissue medium Systems and methods for focussing an ultrasound energy beam transmitted from an array of transducer elements located outside the body through a non-uniform tissue medium, such as a skull, to a location (e.g., a tumor) located inside the body by monitoring... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6645162 | Systems and methods for ultrasound assisted lipolysis Cells are destroyed within a subcutaneous tissue region using a transducer disposed externally adjacent to a patient's skin. The transducer emits acoustic energy that is focused at a linear focal zone within the tissue region, the acoustic energy having s... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6626854 | Systems and methods for ultrasound assisted lipolysis Cells are destroyed within a subcutaneous tissue region using a transducer disposed externally adjacent to a patient's skin. The transducer emits acoustic energy that is focused at a linear focal zone within the tissue region, the acoustic energy having s... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6613004 | Systems and methods for creating longer necrosed volumes using a phased array focused ultrasound system A system for performing a therapeutic procedure using focused ultrasound includes a transducer array including a plurality of transducer elements, drive circuitry coupled to the transducer elements, and a controller coupled to the drive circuitry. The con... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6612988 | Ultrasound therapy The invention provides a method of delivering ultrasound signals. The method includes providing an image of at least a portion of a subject intended to receive ultrasound signals between sources of the ultrasound signals and a desired region of the subjec... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6613005 | Systems and methods for steering a focused ultrasound array A focused ultrasound system includes a transducer array including a plurality of sub-arrays, each sub-array defining an acoustic emission surface and including a plurality of transducer elements thereon. A mechanical controller is coupled to the sub-array... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6380540 | Radiation imaging using simultaneous emission and transmission A gamma camera (70), comprising: at least one emission detector (72), which receives radiation emitted from the body of a subject (26) and generates signals responsive thereto; a radiation source (74), which directs radiation toward the body; at least one... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6369389 | Real-time compton scatter correction A method of reducing artifacts caused by generation of unwanted photons by scattering (e.g., Compton scattered photons) in which a detected event is spatially convoluted with a spatial filter function. The filter function has a distribution of weights wit... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6271524 | Gamma ray collimator A gamma ray collimator assembly comprising a first portion and a second collimator portion, the first and second portions having different gamma ray acceptance angles.... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6160258 | Patient support for use with mobile gamma camera A gamma camera arrangement and method for imaging a patient without moving the patient from the regular hospital bed to a patient carrier bed.... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5811813 | Dual detector gamma camera system A dual headed gamma camera arrangement wherein a first head is juxtaposed to a second head to define an angle therebetween.... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5530248 | Method of and apparatus for improving gamma camera image A system for recording fewer of the events that are caused by unwanted photons with greater stability. The system locally determines the energy spectrum and fits for each pixel of the image the determined energy spectrum with a modified trial function com... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5434414 | Reduction of image artifacts caused by unwanted photons A system for recording fewer of the events that are caused either by Compton scatter photons or by gamma radiation interacting with lead. The system locally determines the energy spectrum and fits the determined energy spectrum with a trial function compo... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5293195 | Reduction of image artifacts caused by Compton scatter Correction for Compton scattering is effected by analysis of the energy spectra. More particularly, a measured energy spectrum is constructed per location from detected counts that are stored according to their measured energy as well as according to the ... | 03/08/1994 |
