Patents by Inventor Jonathan Sachs
Jonathan Sachs 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).
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Publication number: 20170153338Abstract: A customizable and upgradeable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Gil Kovalski, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Jonathan Sachs, Yariv Grobshtein, Yulim Zingerman, Arie Eshco, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 9606247Abstract: A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gil Kovalski, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Jonathan Sachs, Yariv Grobshtein, Yulim Zingerman, Arie Eshco, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 9480441Abstract: A medical imaging system is provided. The imaging system provides patient region-of-interest scanning using a step-staggered detector unit arrangement. A region-of-interest may be a brain. This system can be a Nuclear Medicine (NM) imaging system to acquire Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image information. The imaging system may comprise CZT detector modules.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20160270744Abstract: A medical imaging system is provided. The imaging system provides patient region-of-interest scanning using a step-staggered detector unit arrangement. A region-of-interest may be a brain. This system can be a Nuclear Medicine (NM) imaging system to acquire Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image information. The imaging system may comprise CZT detector modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20160166220Abstract: A method and apparatus for defining a volume of interest in a physiological image based upon an anatomical image. The method and system acquires an anatomical image of a volume of interest using a first imaging modality. A physiological image is acquired using a second imaging, modality different from the first imaging modality. An outline of the volume of interest is defined on the anatomical image and applied to the physiological image to define the volume of interest m the physiological image, Based upon the outline, the system and method assigns binary values to voxels within the outline to more accurately define the volume of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Avi Bar-Shalev, Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 9368074Abstract: A technique for modulating light by an optically addressed, electric charge accumulating spatial light modulator achieves substantially monotonic gray scale response. Embodiments digitally modulate the voltage across a photoreceptive material included in the spatial light modulator. The digital modulation scheme entails illuminating the photoreceptor with a series of light pulses propagating from an LCoS, in which the durations of the light pulses and their positions in time combine to produce binary-weighted equivalent rms voltages on the photoreceptor. The light pulses originate from a light-emitting diode or other switchable light source, and the timing of the light pulses is controlled such that they are emitted only when the associated LCoS is in a stable state. Emitting light pulses while the LCoS is in a stable state avoids non-monotonic behavior.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Compound Photonics Ltd.Inventors: Howard V. Goetz, James L. Sanford, Jonathan A. Sachs
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Publication number: 20160073975Abstract: An imaging system is provided including a gantry, a bed, nuclear medicine (NM) imaging detectors, and a processing unit. The NM imaging detectors are disposed about the bore of the gantry. The processing unit is operably coupled to the imaging detectors, and is configured to acquire first NM imaging information of the object with the imaging detectors in a first axial position, iteratively actuate the gantry in a series of steps between the first axial position and the second axial position, acquire additional NM imaging information of the object at each of the steps, and reconstruct an image of the object using the first NM imaging information and the additional NM imaging information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Yaron Hefetz, Jonathan Sachs, Gil Kovalski, Avi Bar-Shalev
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Publication number: 20160047921Abstract: A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Gil Kovalski, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Jonathan Sachs, Yariv Grobshtein, Yulim Zingerman, Arie Eshco, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 9213110Abstract: A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements. The system can automatically adjust an imaging operation based on installation information related to partial population or other factors such as scan type or subject specific information. This system can be a Nuclear Medicine (NM) imaging system to acquire Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image information.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gil Kovalski, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Jonathan Sachs, Yariv Grobshtein, Yulim Zingerman, Arie Eshco, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20150177393Abstract: A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements. The system can automatically adjust an imaging operation based on installation information related to partial population or other factors such as scan type or subject specific information. This system can be a Nuclear Medicine (NM) imaging system to acquire Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Gil Kovalski, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Jonathan Sachs, Yariv Grobshtein, Yulim Zingerman, Arie Eshco, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 9029791Abstract: A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements. The system can automatically adjust an imaging operation based on installation information related to partial population or other factors such as scan type or subject specific information. This system can be a Nuclear Medicine (NM) imaging system to acquire Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image information.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gil Kovalski, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Jonathan Sachs, Yariv Grobshtein, Yulim Zingerman, Arie Eshco, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 9002079Abstract: Systems and methods for medical imaging are provided. One method includes obtaining image information including timing information and obtaining motion information corresponding to an external movement by a patient being imaged. Obtaining the motion information includes detecting motion of the patient with a sensing device that does not engage the patient. The motion information includes motion timing information. The method further includes associating the motion information with the image information using the image timing information and the motion timing information. The method further includes forming an image representative of a portion of the patient using the associated image and motion information.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20140185747Abstract: A nuclear medicine mammography system and method for conducting concurrent examinations of both breasts of a patient, thereby reducing examination time in molecular breast imaging. The system comprises first and second pairs of generally opposed articulatable gamma photon detectors, wherein each pair of detectors can be arranged to image a respective breast independently from the other pair of detectors. In one or more embodiments, each pair of detectors can be arranged in at least two imaging orientations, such as cranio-caudal and mediolateral-oblique.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 8759783Abstract: A nuclear medicine mammography system and method for conducting concurrent examinations of both breasts of a patient, thereby reducing examination time in molecular breast imaging. The system comprises first and second pairs of generally opposed articulatable gamma photon detectors, wherein each pair of detectors can be arranged to image a respective breast independently from the other pair of detectors. In one or more embodiments, each pair of detectors can be arranged in at least two imaging orientations, such as cranio-caudal and mediolateral-oblique.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: GE Medical Systems Israel, Ltd.Inventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 8729479Abstract: A nuclear medicine mammography system and method for conducting concurrent examinations of both breasts of a patient, thereby reducing examination time in molecular breast imaging. The system comprises first and second pairs of generally opposed articulatable gamma photon detectors, wherein each pair of detectors can be arranged to image a respective breast independently from the other pair of detectors. In one or more embodiments, the first detector pair is dedicatedly oriented in a first orientation and the second detector pair is dedicatedly oriented in a second, different orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: GE Medical Systems Israel Ltd.Inventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 8712124Abstract: The present disclosure relates various approaches for removing or reducing the effects of out-of-field sources of radiation if emission tomography applications. In certain embodiments, a plurality of measured views are acquired about an organ or region of interest. The measured views may be reconstructed to form an image and the image may be used in a cleaning or correction process that allows generation of a final image having reduced or eliminated artifacts attributable to out-of-field source effects.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Sachs, Floribertus Philippus Martinus Heukensfeldt Jansen, Lana Volokh, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20130310655Abstract: Systems and methods for medical imaging are provided. One method includes obtaining image information including timing information and obtaining motion information corresponding to an external movement by a patient being imaged. Obtaining the motion information includes detecting motion of the patient with a sensing device that does not engage the patient. The motion information includes motion timing information. The method further includes associating the motion information with the image information using the image timing information and the motion timing information. The method further includes forming an image representative of a portion of the patient using the associated image and motion information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Sachs, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20130222443Abstract: A technique for modulating light by an optically addressed, electric charge accumulating spatial light modulator achieves substantially monotonic gray scale response. Embodiments digitally modulate the voltage across a photoreceptive material included in the spatial light modulator. The digital modulation scheme entails illuminating the photoreceptor with a series of light pulses propagating from an LCoS, in which the durations of the light pulses and their positions in time combine to produce binary-weighted equivalent rms voltages on the photoreceptor. The light pulses originate from a light-emitting diode or other switchable light source, and the timing of the light pulses is controlled such that they are emitted only when the associated LCoS is in a stable state. Emitting light pulses while the LCoS is in a stable state avoids non-monotonic behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Howard V. Goetz, James L. Sanford, Jonathan A. Sachs
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Patent number: 8421021Abstract: The present disclosure relates approaches for removing or reducing the effects of motion in parallel and non-parallel data acquisitions using a nuclear medicine imaging system. In certain embodiments, translation vectors are derived based on a registration performed on transaxial slices generated from the acquired projection data. The translation vectors may be employed to update a system matrix such that images generated using the updated system matrix are free or motion artifacts or have reduced motion artifacts.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Sachs, Lana Volokh, Yaron Hefetz
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Patent number: 8405690Abstract: A technique for modulating light by an optically addressed, electric charge accumulating spatial light modulator achieves substantially monotonic gray scale response. Embodiments digitally modulate the voltage across a photoreceptive material included in the spatial light modulator. The digital modulation scheme entails illuminating the photoreceptor with a series of light pulses propagating from an LCoS, in which the durations of the light pulses and their positions in time combine to produce binary-weighted equivalent rms voltages on the photoreceptor. The light pulses originate from a light-emitting diode or other switchable light source, and the timing of the light pulses is controlled such that they are emitted only when the associated LCoS is in a stable state. Emitting light pulses while the LCoS is in a stable state avoids non-monotonic behavior.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2007Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Compound Photonics LimitedInventors: Howard V. Goetz, James L. Sanford, Jonathan A. Sachs