Patents by Inventor Luca Marinelli
Luca Marinelli 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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Patent number: 8908951Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method includes acquiring MR signals having phase and magnitude at q-space locations using a diffusion sensitizing pulse sequence performed on a tissue of interest, wherein the acquired signals each include a set of complex Fourier encodings representing a three-dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in a q-space location. The signals each include information relating to coherent motion and incoherent motion in the q-space location. The method also includes determining a contribution by coherent motion to the phase of the acquired MR signals; removing the phase contribution attributable to coherent motion from the acquired MR signals to produce a complex data set for each q-space location and an image of velocity components for each q-space location; and producing a three-dimensional velocity image from the image of the velocity components.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Marion Irene Menzel, Christopher Judson Hardy, Kevin Franklin King, Luca Marinelli, Ek Tsoon Tan, Jonathan Immanuel Sperl
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Publication number: 20140312897Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting magnetic resonance (MR) data are provided. One method includes receiving the MR data and correcting errors present in the MR data due to non-uniformities in magnetic field gradients used to generate the diffusion weighted MR signals. The method also includes correcting errors present in the MR data due to concomitant gradient fields present in the magnetic field gradients by using one or more gradient terms. At least one of the gradient terms is corrected based on the correction of errors present in the MR data due to the non-uniformities in the magnetic field gradients.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ek Tsoon Tan, Christopher Judson Hardy, Kevin Franklin King, Zachary William Slavens, Luca Marinelli, Robert Marc Lebel
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Publication number: 20140296701Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a receive coil assembly for use in magnetic resonance imaging of breast tissue. In certain embodiments the assembly comprises separable parts: a configurable mechanical support and a flexible receive coil array. The adjustability and separability of the receive coil array relative to the mechanical support allows the receive coil array to substantially conform to the breasts of the patient during imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ileana Hancu, Kenneth William Rohling, Luca Marinelli, Eric William Fiveland, Seung-Kyun Lee, Keith J. Park
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Publication number: 20140275962Abstract: Methods and systems using magnetic resonance and ultrasound for tracking anatomical targets for radiation therapy guidance are provided. One system includes a patient transport configured to move a patient between and into a magnetic resonance (MR) system and a radiation therapy (RT) system and an ultrasound transducer coupled to the patient transport, wherein the ultrasound transducer is configured to acquire four-dimensional (4D) ultrasound images concurrently with one of an MR acquisition or an RT radiation therapy session. The system also includes a controller having a processor configured to use the 4D ultrasound images and MR images from the MR system to control at least one of a photon beam spatial distribution or intensity modulation generated by the RT system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Lowell Scott Smith, Kai Erik Thomenius, Sandeep Narendra Gupta, Luca Marinelli, Kedar Anil Patwardhan, Dominic Michael Graziani
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Publication number: 20140185894Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method includes acquiring MR signals having phase and magnitude at q-space locations using a diffusion sensitizing pulse sequence performed on a tissue of interest, wherein the acquired signals each include a set of complex Fourier encodings representing a three-dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in a q-space location. The signals each include information relating to coherent motion and incoherent motion in the q-space location. The method also includes determining a contribution by coherent motion to the phase of the acquired MR signals; removing the phase contribution attributable to coherent motion from the acquired MR signals to produce a complex data set for each q-space location and an image of velocity components for each q-space location; and producing a three-dimensional velocity image from the image of the velocity components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Marion Irene Menzel, Christopher Judson Hardy, Kevin Franklin King, Luca Marinelli, Ek Tsoon Tan, Jonathan Immanuel Sperl
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Patent number: 8768095Abstract: A signal processing method is provided. The signal processing method includes the steps of generating undersampled data corresponding to an object, determining a variable thresholding parameter based on a composition of the undersampled data, and iteratively determining thresholded coefficients to generate a plurality of coefficients by utilizing the undersampled data, a current solution and the variable thresholding parameter by updating the variable thresholding parameter and the current solution, and reconstructing a data signal using the plurality of coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, Christopher Judson Hardy, Kevin Franklin King, Luca Marinelli
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Publication number: 20140167753Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a tissue are provided. A method includes acquiring MR raw data. The MR raw data corresponds to MR signals obtained at undersampled q-space locations for a plurality of q-space locations that is less than an entirety of the q-space locations and the MR signals at the q-space locations represent the three dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in the imaging voxel. The method also includes performing a joint image reconstruction technique on the MR raw data to exploit structural correlations in the MR signals to obtain a series of accelerated MR images and performing, for each image pixel in each accelerated MR image of the series of accelerated MR images, a compressed sensing reconstruction technique to exploit q-space signal sparsity to identify a plurality of diffusion maps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jonathan Immanuel Sperl, Christopher Judson Hardy, Luca Marinelli, Ek Tsoon Tan, Kevin Franklin King, Marion Irene Menzel
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Publication number: 20140159712Abstract: Magnetic material imaging (MMI) system including first and second sets of field-generating coils. Each of the field-generating coils of the first and second sets has an elongated segment that extends along an imaging axis of the medical imaging system. The imaging axis extends through a region-of-interest (ROI) of an object. The elongated segments of the first set of field-generating coils are positioned opposite the elongated segments of the second set of field-generating coils and the ROI is located between the first and second sets of field-generating coils. The MMI system also includes a coil-control module configured to control a flow of current through the first and second sets of field-generating coils to generate a selection field and to generate a drive field. The selection and drive fields combine to form a movable 1D field free region (FFR) that extends through the ROI.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dominic Michael Graziani, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Luca Marinelli, Daniel Eugene Meyer, Bruce Allen Hay
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Publication number: 20130271130Abstract: A method for measuring diffusional anisotropy in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. The method includes determining an orientation diffusion function (ODF) for one or more fibers within a single voxel, wherein the ODF includes lobes representative of a probability of diffusion in a given direction for the one or more fibers. The method also includes characterizing an aspect ratio of the lobes. The method further includes determining a multi-directional anisotropy metric for the one or more fibers based on the aspect ratio of the lobes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ek Tsoon Tan, Christopher Judson Hardy, Luca Marinelli
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Patent number: 8559688Abstract: A signal processing method is presented. The method includes acquiring undersampled data corresponding to an object, initializing a first image solution and a second image solution, determining a linear combination solution based upon the first image solution and the second image solution, generating a plurality of selected coefficients by iteratively updating the first image solution, the second image solution and the linear combination solution and adaptively thresholding one or more transform coefficients utilizing the undersampled data, an updated first image solution, an updated second image solution and an updated linear combination solution, and reconstructing a data signal using the plurality of selected coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, Kevin Franklin King, Luca Marinelli, Christopher Judson Hardy
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Publication number: 20120249136Abstract: A method of generating a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a tissue includes acquiring MR signals at undersampled q-space encoding locations for a plurality of q-space locations that is less than an entirety of the q-space locations sampled at the Nyquist rate, wherein the acquired signal at the q-space locations represents the three-dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in the imaging voxel, synthesizing the MR signal for the entirety of q-space encodings using a compressed sensing technique for a portion of q-space locations at which MR data was not acquired, combining the acquired MR signals at q-space encodings and the synthesized MR signals at q-space encodings to generate a set of MR signals at q-space encodings that are evenly distributed in q-space, using the set of MR signals at q-space encodings to generate a function that represents a displacement probability distribution function of the set of spins in the imaging voxel, and generating an image of the tissue based on at least a portionType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: LUCA MARINELLI, KEVIN KING, CHRISTOPHER HARDY, MARION MENZEL
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Patent number: 8160342Abstract: A signal processing method include steps initializing a residual data signal representative of an acquired data signal, determining a significant coefficient corresponding to the residual data signal, updating the residual data signal using the significant coefficient to generate updated residual data signal, iteratively determining significant coefficients to generate a plurality of significant coefficients using the updated residual data signal, updating the plurality of significant coefficients by using a successive approximation technique, to improve the numerical accuracy of the significant coefficients and reconstructing a data signal using the updated plurality of significant coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kedar Khare, Christopher Judson Hardy, Luca Marinelli, Xiaodong Tao
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Publication number: 20120002854Abstract: A signal processing method is presented. The method includes acquiring undersampled data corresponding to an object, initializing a first image solution and a second image solution, determining a linear combination solution based upon the first image solution and the second image solution, generating a plurality of selected coefficients by iteratively updating the first image solution, the second image solution and the linear combination solution and adaptively thresholding one or more transform coefficients utilizing the undersampled data, an updated first image solution, an updated second image solution and an updated linear combination solution, and reconstructing a data signal using the plurality of selected coefficients.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, Kevin Franklin King, Luca Marinelli, Christopher Judson Hardy
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Patent number: 7977943Abstract: A method for reconstructing an image in a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method includes steps of acquiring magnetic resonance signals from a plurality of receiver coils placed about a subject, each receiver coil having a coil sensitivity, iteratively polling each acquired magnetic resonance signal for determining one or more significant wavelet components of each acquired magnetic resonance signal by utilizing a coil sensitivity function of each receiver coil for each acquired magnetic resonance signal, iteratively determining one or more coefficients based on the one or more significant wavelet components to generate a plurality of coefficients for each acquired magnetic resonance signal, reconstructing an image utilizing a corresponding plurality of coefficients corresponding to each acquired magnetic resonance signal, and generating a composite image by combining the reconstructed images.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Luca Marinelli, Christopher Judson Hardy, Daniel James Blezek
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Publication number: 20110038560Abstract: A signal processing method is provided. The signal processing method includes the steps of generating undersampled data corresponding to an object, determining a variable thresholding parameter based on a composition of the undersampled data, and iteratively determining thresholded coefficients to generate a plurality of coefficients by utilizing the undersampled data, a current solution and the variable thresholding parameter by updating the variable thresholding parameter and the current solution, and reconstructing a data signal using the plurality of coefficients.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, Christopher Judson Hardy, Kevin Franklin King, Luca Marinelli
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Publication number: 20100220908Abstract: A signal processing method include steps initializing a residual data signal representative of an acquired data signal, determining a significant coefficient corresponding to the residual data signal, updating the residual data signal using the significant coefficient to generate updated residual data signal, iteratively determining significant coefficients to generate a plurality of significant coefficients using the updated residual data signal, updating the plurality of significant coefficients by using a successive approximation technique, to improve the numerical accuracy of the significant coefficients and reconstructing a data signal using the updated plurality of significant coefficients.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kedar Khare, Christopher Judson Hardy, Luca Marinelli, Xiaodong Tao
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Patent number: 7782058Abstract: A system and method for accelerated MR imaging includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet, and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly comprising at least one RF transmit coil and comprising multiple coils to acquire MR images. The MRI apparatus also has a computer programmed to excite multiple pencil regions by use of an under-sampled echo-planar excitation trajectory and acquire MR signals simultaneously on multiple channels of the RF coil assembly. The computer is also programmed to separate contributions from the various multiple pencil regions by use of parallel imaging reconstruction.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Judson Hardy, Luca Marinelli
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Publication number: 20090267602Abstract: A system and method for accelerated MR imaging includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet, and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly comprising at least one RF transmit coil and comprising multiple coils to acquire MR images. The MRI apparatus also has a computer programmed to excite multiple pencil regions by use of an under-sampled echo-planar excitation trajectory and acquire MR signals simultaneously on multiple channels of the RF coil assembly. The computer is also programmed to separate contributions from the various multiple pencil regions by use of parallel imaging reconstruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Christopher Judson Hardy, Luca Marinelli
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Publication number: 20090256565Abstract: A method for reconstructing an image in a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method includes steps of acquiring magnetic resonance signals from a plurality of receiver coils placed about a subject, each receiver coil having a coil sensitivity, iteratively polling each acquired magnetic resonance signal for determining one or more significant wavelet components of each acquired magnetic resonance signal by utilizing a coil sensitivity function of each receiver coil for each acquired magnetic resonance signal, iteratively determining one or more coefficients based on the one or more significant wavelet components to generate a plurality of coefficients for each acquired magnetic resonance signal, reconstructing an image utilizing a corresponding plurality of coefficients corresponding to each acquired magnetic resonance signal, and generating a composite image by combining the reconstructed images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Luca Marinelli, Christopher Judson Hardy, Daniel James Blezek
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Patent number: 7577103Abstract: In the method, system conditions may be monitored for at least a first time period within a periodic time interval, and network parameters for optimizing a wireless network may be determined. The determined network parameters may be implemented during a first time period within the at least one subsequent periodic time interval.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Alvaro H. Diaz, Michael J. Flanagan, Luca Marinelli, Jayanthi Srinivasan