Patents by Inventor Kejun Kang

Kejun Kang 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: 20230190210
    Abstract: Provided are a CT scanning method and system, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a first coordinate of a mark point of a part to be imaged in a dual-camera coordinate system; converting the first coordinate into a second coordinate of the mark point in a CT coordinate system according to coordinate system transformation parameters; generating first locating information according to the second coordinate to drive a scanning table to move to a first location designated by the first locating information; obtaining projection images of the part to be scanned; determining second locating information and scanning information of the part to be scanned according to the projection images; and driving the scanning table to move to a second location designated by the second locating information according to the second locating information and performing CT scanning according to the scanning information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: BEIJING FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL, CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenchang WANG, Li ZHANG, Hongxia YIN, Yuxiang XING, Zhiqiang CHEN, Kejun KANG, Liang LI, Pengfei ZHAO, Zhengyu ZHANG, Jing LI, Han LV
  • Patent number: 11054542
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a multi-ray-source accelerator and an inspection method. The multi-ray-source accelerator includes: a plurality of acceleration tubes, each acceleration tube of the plurality of acceleration tubes including an acceleration tube body that defines at least one cavity, the plurality of acceleration tubes being arranged in at least one row along a straight line or an arc and connected in series with each other; and a microwave unit configured to provide a microwave field to the plurality of acceleration tubes. The plurality of acceleration tubes are arranged to allow the microwave unit to provide the microwave field from an acceleration tube at one end of the plurality of acceleration tubes so as to accelerate electron beams in cavities of all the acceleration tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Huaibi Chen, Yaohong Liu, Chuanxiang Tang, Yuanjing Li, Hao Zha, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11022569
    Abstract: A low-angle self-swinging type computed tomography (CT) device is provided, having an X-ray accelerator and a plurality of rows of detectors and includes a slip ring, such that the slip ring with the accelerator and the detectors thereon is capable of performing a single-pendulum reciprocating movement while an object to be inspected passes through the slip ring, a three-dimensional CT image of the object is displayed, thereby achieving accurate inspection for large-scale objects, such as van containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Li Zhang, Ziran Zhao, Yaohong Liu, Jianping Gu, Liang Li, Yuxiang Xing
  • Patent number: 10984565
    Abstract: An image processing method, comprising: acquiring, by a CT scanning system, projection data of an object; and processing, by using a convolutional neural network, the projection data, to acquire an estimated image of the object. The convolutional neural network comprises: a projection domain network for processing input projection data to obtain estimated projection data; an analytical reconstruction network layer for performing analytical reconstruction to obtain a reconstructed image; an image domain network for processing the reconstructed image to obtain an estimated image, a projection layer for performing a projection operation by using a system projection matrix of the CT scanning system, to obtain a projection result of the estimated image; and a statistical model layer for determining consistency among the input projection data, the estimated projection data, and the projection result of the estimated image based on a statistical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuxiang Xing, Kaichao Liang, Le Shen, Li Zhang, Hongkai Yang, Kejun Kang, Zhiqiang Chen, Jianmin Li, Yinong Liu
  • Patent number: 10935691
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of CT detection, and in particular to a CT inspection system and a CT imaging method. The CT inspection system provided by the present disclosure comprises a radioactive source device, a detection device, a rotation monitoring device and an imaging device, wherein the detection device obtains detection data at a frequency that is N times a beam emitting frequency of the radioactive source device; the rotation monitoring device detects a rotation angle of the detection device and transmits a signal to the imaging device each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle; the imaging device determines a rotational position of the detection device each time the radioactive source device emits a beam according to the signal transmitted by the rotation monitoring device and the detection data of the detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Jianmin Li, Xiulin Ni, Yulan Li, Yuanjing Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Li Zhang, Liang Li, Xiang Zou, Weifeng Yu, Hejun Zhou, Chunguang Zong
  • Publication number: 20210018649
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a multi-ray-source accelerator and an inspection method. The multi-ray-source accelerator includes: a plurality of acceleration tubes, each acceleration tube of the plurality of acceleration tubes including an acceleration tube body that defines at least one cavity, the plurality of acceleration tubes being arranged in at least one row along a straight line or an arc and connected in series with each other; and a microwave unit configured to provide a microwave field to the plurality of acceleration tubes. The plurality of acceleration tubes are arranged to allow the microwave unit to provide the microwave field from an acceleration tube at one end of the plurality of acceleration tubes so as to accelerate electron beams in cavities of all the acceleration tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Huaibi Chen, Yaohong Liu, Chuanxiang Tang, Yuanjing Li, Hao Zha, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10658088
    Abstract: A collimator and an inspection system having the collimator are disclosed. The collimator includes: a collimator body including a first part and a second part; a collimating slit formed between the first part and the second part and having a first end and a second end in a longitudinal direction thereof; and a shielding member which is movable relative to the collimator body such that both a beam divergent angle and an elevation angle of a ray beam propagating through the collimating slit are varied. An inspection system and an inspection method for scanning a vehicle are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Ying Li, Jianmin Li, Yulan Li, Guoping Zhu
  • Patent number: 10649104
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reconstructing an incident energy spectrum for a detector are disclosed. In this method, an object to be inspected is illuminated with rays, and then rays transmitted through the object to be inspected are received by the detector to convert the received rays into data of a detected energy spectrum. The incident energy spectrum for the detector is reconstructed based on the data of the energy spectrum using a statistical iterative algorithm with a pre-established detector response function. With the above solution of the embodiments, the incident energy spectrum for the detector can be more accurately acquired, thereby reducing a distortion of the incident energy spectrum caused by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Li Zhang, Ziran Zhao, Yuxiang Xing, Kejun Kang, Lan Zhang, Ruizhe Li
  • Patent number: 10620336
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a system for inspecting a moving object based on cosmic rays, pertaining to the field of radiation imaging and safety inspection techniques. The method includes: detecting whether a speed of the inspected moving object is within a preset range; recording a motion trajectory of the moving object with a monitoring device; acquiring information about charged particles in the cosmic rays with a position sensitive detector, the information about charged particles including track information of the charged particles; determining the moving object by matching positions of the motion trajectory and the track information; reconstructing the track of the charged particles according to the information about the charged particles; and recognizing the material inside the moving object based on the track reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Jianping Cheng, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Junli Li, Xuewu Wang, Zhi Zeng, Qingjun Zhang, Jianping Gu, Xi Yi, Bicheng Liu, Guangming Xu, Yongqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10613247
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method, apparatus and system for inspecting an object based on a cosmic ray, pertaining to the technical field of radiometric imaging and safety inspection. The method includes: recording a movement trajectory of an inspected object by using a monitoring device; acquiring information of charged particles in the cosmic ray by using a position-sensitive detector, the information of charged particles comprising trajectory information of the charged particles; performing position coincidence for the movement trajectory and the trajectory information to determine the object; performing trajectory remodeling for the charged particles according to the information of charged particles; and identifying a material inside the moving object according to the trajectory remodeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Junli Li, Xuewu Wang, Yaohong Liu, Zhi Zeng, Jianping Gu, Song Liang, Bicheng Liu, Guangming Xu, Yongqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10578765
    Abstract: This invention provides a scan method, scan system and radiation scan controller, and relates to the field of radiation. The scanning method includes obtaining detection data of an object to be inspected under radiation scanning using a detector, adjusting an accelerator output beam dose rate and/or an output electron beam energy level of a radiation emission device according to the detection data. With this method, working conditions of the accelerator of the radiation emission device may be adjusted according to the detection data detected by the detector, so that for a region having a larger mass thickness, a higher output beam dose rate or a higher electron beam output energy level is adopted to guarantee satisfied imaging technical indexes, for a region having a smaller mass thickness, a lower output beam dose rate or a lower electron beam output energy level is adopted to reduce the environmental dose level while guaranteeing satisfied imaging technical indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Yaohong Liu, Ziran Zhao, Wei Jia, Jianping Gu, Chuanxiang Tang, Huaibi Chen, Jianjun Gao, Wei Yin, Xiying Liu
  • Patent number: 10495776
    Abstract: This invention provides a scan method, scan system and radiation scan controller, and relates to the field of radiation. Wherein, the scan method of this invention comprises: obtaining detection data of an object to be inspected under radiation scanning using a detector; adjusting an accelerator output beam dose rate and/or an output electron beam energy level of a radiation emission device according to the detection data. With this method, working conditions of the accelerator of the radiation emission device may be adjusted according to the detection data detected by the detector, so that for a region having a larger mass thickness, a higher output beam dose rate or a higher electron beam output energy level is adopted to guarantee satisfied imaging technical indexes, for a region having a smaller mass thickness, a lower output beam dose rate or a lower electron beam output energy level is adopted to reduce the environmental dose level while guaranteeing satisfied imaging technical indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Yaohong Liu, Ziran Zhao, Wei Jia, Jianping Gu, Chuanxiang Tang, Huaibi Chen, Jianjun Gao, Wei Yin, Xiying Liu
  • Patent number: 10466372
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an X-ray beam intensity monitoring device and an X-ray inspection system. The X-ray beam intensity monitoring device comprises an intensity detecting module and a data processing module, wherein the intensity detecting module is adopted to be irradiated by the X-ray beam and send a detecting signal, the data processing module is coupled with the intensity detecting module to receive the detecting signal and output an X-ray beam intensity monitoring signal, wherein the X-ray beam intensity monitoring signal includes a dose monitoring signal for the X-ray beam and a brightness correction signal for correcting signal values of the X-ray beam. The X-ray beam intensity monitoring device can simultaneously perform dose monitoring and brightness monitoring, thereby improving the service efficiency of the X-ray beam intensity monitoring device. Moreover, the monitoring result of the X-ray beam intensity can be more accurate and reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Shuwei Li, Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Yulan Li, Ziran Zhao, Yinong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Weibin Zhu, Xiaolin Zhao, Huishao He
  • Patent number: 10448904
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a decomposition method based on basis material combination. In the present disclosure, a scanned object is divided into a plurality of regions, the basis material combinations used in each of the divided regions are different each other, and the scanned object is re-divided according to the re-determined equivalent atomic number of its each point until the change on decomposition coefficient meets certain conditions. Thereby, a decomposition method based on dynamic basis material combinations is realized, which reduces a decomposition error caused by improper selection of the basis material combination and improves the accuracy of the decomposition and substance identification of the multi-energy CT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Kejun Kang, Ziran Zhao, Li Zhang, Yuxiang Xing, Tiao Zhao, Jianmin Li, Bicheng Liu, Qian Yi
  • Patent number: 10397491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photogrammetry system and method. The photogrammetry system comprises: photographing devices capable of photographing an object at a predetermined time interval; and, a data processing device capable of calculating an actual length of the object or a certain portion on the object according to a length of the object or a certain portion on the object in the images obtained by the photographing devices and a distance of the object in the two images, wherein the object moves at a speed V; the photographing devices photograph the object for two times at a time interval t; the distance of the object in the two images obtained by the two times of photographing is Dp; the length of the object or a certain portion on the object in the images is Lp; and, the actual length L of the object or a certain portion on the object may be obtained by the following formula: L = Lp × Vt Dp .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mingliang Li, Yuanjing Li, Jianmin Li, Ying Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Kejun Kang
  • Publication number: 20190204243
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of CT detection, and in particular to a CT inspection system and a CT imaging method. The CT inspection system provided by the present disclosure comprises a radioactive source device, a detection device, a rotation monitoring device and an imaging device, wherein the detection device obtains detection data at a frequency that is N times a beam emitting frequency of the radioactive source device; the rotation monitoring device detects a rotation angle of the detection device and transmits a signal to the imaging device each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle; the imaging device determines a rotational position of the detection device each time the radioactive source device emits a beam according to the signal transmitted by the rotation monitoring device and the detection data of the detection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kejun KANG, Jianmin LI, Xiulin NI, Yulan LI, Yuanjing LI, Zhiqiang CHEN, Li ZHANG, Liang LI, Xiang ZOU, Weifeng YU, Hejun ZHOU, Chunguang ZONG
  • Publication number: 20190206095
    Abstract: An image processing method, comprising: acquiring, by a CT scanning system, projection data of an object; and processing, by using a convolutional neural network, the projection data, to acquire an estimated image of the object. The convolutional neural network comprises: a projection domain network for processing input projection data to obtain estimated projection data; an analytical reconstruction network layer for performing analytical reconstruction to obtain a reconstructed image; an image domain network for processing the reconstructed image to obtain an estimated image, a projection layer for performing a projection operation by using a system projection matrix of the CT scanning system, to obtain a projection result of the estimated image; and a statistical model layer for determining consistency among the input projection data, the estimated projection data, and the projection result of the estimated image based on a statistical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuxiang XING, Kaichao LIANG, Le SHEN, Li ZHANG, Hongkai YANG, Kejun KANG, Zhiqiang CHEN, Jianmin LI, Yinong LIU
  • Patent number: 10339673
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dual-energy ray imaging method and system. The method comprises: calculating the mass thicknesses of the materials in the overlapped area of two materials by using a calibrated surface fitting method, and then decomposing a pair of original high-energy and low-energy data for this pixel into two high-low-energy data sets corresponding to the two materials, and finally calculating and acquiring the composition result of different materials for each pixel. The disclosure is especially advantageous in that the problem of error recognition of materials due to the two overlapped materials can be eliminated and the stratified imaging of multiple materials can be achieved, thereby improving the accuracy of the substance recognition and reducing the rate of false positive and false negative which is very important to the applications in the field of security check and anti-smuggling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Kejun Kang, Li Zhang, Ziran Zhao, Yuxiang Xing, Yongshun Xiao, Jianping Gu, Juan Zheng
  • Publication number: 20190192090
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a decomposition method based on basis material combination. In the present disclosure, a scanned object is divided into a plurality of regions, the basis material combinations used in each of the divided regions are different each other, and the scanned object is re-divided according to the re-determined equivalent atomic number of its each point until the change on decomposition coefficient meets certain conditions. Thereby, a decomposition method based on dynamic basis material combinations is realized, which reduces a decomposition error caused by improper selection of the basis material combination and improves the accuracy of the decomposition and substance identification of the multi-energy CT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Kejun Kang, Ziran Zhao, Li Zhang, Yuxiang Xing, Tiao Zhao, Jianmin Li, Bicheng Liu, Qian Yi
  • Publication number: 20190170894
    Abstract: This invention provides a scan method, scan system and radiation scan controller, and relates to the field of radiation. The scanning method includes obtaining detection data of an object to be inspected under radiation scanning using a detector, adjusting an accelerator output beam dose rate and/or an output electron beam energy level of a radiation emission device according to the detection data. With this method, working conditions of the accelerator of the radiation emission device may be adjusted according to the detection data detected by the detector, so that for a region having a larger mass thickness, a higher output beam dose rate or a higher electron beam output energy level is adopted to guarantee satisfied imaging technical indexes, for a region having a smaller mass thickness, a lower output beam dose rate or a lower electron beam output energy level is adopted to reduce the environmental dose level while guaranteeing satisfied imaging technical indexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Kejun KANG, Yaohong LIU, Ziran ZHAO, Wei JIA, Jianping GU, Chuanxiang TANG, Huaibi CHEN, Jianjun GAO, Wei YIN, Xiying LIU