Patents by Inventor GIUSEPPE VALVANO

GIUSEPPE VALVANO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240103111
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120). The medical system further comprises a computational system (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Silke Hey, Giuseppe Valvano
  • Patent number: 11841412
    Abstract: The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 300). The execution of the machine executable instructions (110) causes a processor (102) to: receive (200) multiple diffusion weighted images (112) of a subject (318), wherein the multiple diffusion weighted images each have an assigned b-value, wherein the multiple diffusion weighted images each have an assigned diffusion weighting direction, wherein for a region of interest (309) there is at least one corresponding voxel (506) in each of the multiple diffusion weighted images; construct (202) a set of equations (114) for each of the at least one corresponding voxel, wherein the set of equations is constructed from an apparent diffusion equation for the assigned diffusion weighting direction of each of the multiple diffusion weighted images; solve (204) the set of equations for each voxel for the b0 value as an optimization; and construct (206) a b0 image using the b0 value for each voxel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Pierre Ermes, Giuseppe Valvano
  • Patent number: 11686800
    Abstract: Disclosed is a medical imaging system (100, 300). The execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes a processor (104) to: receive (200) measured magnetic resonance imaging data (122) descriptive of a first region of interest (307) of a subject (318); receive (202) a B0 map (124), a T1 map (126), a T2 map (128), and a magnetization map (130) each descriptive of a second region of interest (309) of the subject; receive (204) pulse sequence commands (132); calculate (206) a simulated magnetic resonance image (136) of an overlapping region of interest (311) using at least the B0 map, the T1 map, the T2 map, the magnetization map, and the pulse sequence commands as input to a Bloch equation model (134); and reconstruct (208) a corrected magnetic resonance image from the measured magnetic resonance imaging data for the overlapping region of interest by solving an inverse problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Valvano, Elwin de Weerdt
  • Publication number: 20220187404
    Abstract: The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 300). The execution of the machine executable instructions (110) causes a processor (102) to: receive (200) multiple diffusion weighted images (112) of a subject (318), wherein the multiple diffusion weighted images each have an assigned b-value, wherein the multiple diffusion weighted images each have an assigned diffusion weighting direction, wherein for a region of interest (309) there is at least one corresponding voxel (506) in each of the multiple diffusion weighted images; construct (202) a set of equations (114) for each of the at least one corresponding voxel, wherein the set of equations is constructed from an apparent diffusion equation for the assigned diffusion weighting direction of each of the multiple diffusion weighted images; solve (204) the set of equations for each voxel for the b0 value as an optimization; and construct (206) a image using the b0 value for each voxel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: PIERRE ERMES, GIUSEPPE VALVANO
  • Publication number: 20220179028
    Abstract: Disclosed is a medical imaging system (100, 300). The execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes a processor (104) to: receive (200) measured magnetic resonance imaging data (122) descriptive of a first region of interest (307) of a subject (318); receive (202) a B0 map (124), a T1 map (126), a T2 map (128), and a magnetization map (130) each descriptive of a second region of interest (309) of the subject; receive (204) pulse sequence commands (132); calculate (206) a simulated magnetic resonance image (136) of an overlapping region of interest (311) using at least the B0 map, the T1 map, the T2 map, the magnetization map, and the pulse sequence commands as input to a Bloch equation model (134); and reconstruct (208) a corrected magnetic resonance image from the measured magnetic resonance imaging data for the overlapping region of interest by solving an inverse problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Giuseppe Valvano, Elwin de Weerdt
  • Publication number: 20220057467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1). An object of the invention is to provide a method that enables EPI imaging with improved distortion correction. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: acquiring reference MR signal data from the object (10) using a multi-point Dixon method; deriving a B0 map from the reference MR signal data; acquiring a series of imaging MR signal data sets from the object (10), wherein an instance of an echo planar imaging sequence is used for acquisition of each imaging MR signal data set; and reconstructing an MR image from each imaging MR signal data set, wherein geometric distortions in each MR image are corrected using the B0 map. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) for carrying out the method, and to a computer program to be run on a MR device (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: GIUSEPPE VALVANO