Abstract: In an imaging method for medical diagnostics and a device operating according to this method, during an endoscopic examination of a body region of a patient with an endoscope, an image is generated with a non-endoscopic imaging method and the image field of the endoscope is determined and rendered in the image (28) with accurate position and orientation.

Abstract: In a method and a device for generation of a complete image composed from a number of individual endoscopic images of the inner surface of a body cavity of a patient, the alignment of an optical axis of an endoscope introduced into the body cavity is controlled by evaluation and comparison of the individual images acquired from different directions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the provision of information additional to reproduced information and use of a program loaded in an arithmetic unit (1) for reproduction of information, whereby the program contacts at least one data bank (6 to 10), which may contain logical additional information to the information reproduced by the program. Should there be additional information for reproduced information in the data bank (6 to 10), the program marks the information and links the information Lu the additional information, whereby the marking of the information may be activated such that the additional information can be displayed. The invention further relates to a computer (1) provided with such a program.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor device for monitoring accelerations to which an object is subjected. In order to detect whether a value has exceeded or is below a threshold for the acceleration to which objects have been subjected in the past, i.e. without having visual contact with the sensor, the inventive sensor device includes an acceleration sensor, which is permanently linked to the object to be monitored, so that a relative movement between the acceleration sensor and the object is prevented, and an RFID transceiver for non-contact coupling of electrical energy into the acceleration sensor and for sending out radio signals as a function of the physical state of the acceleration sensor.

Abstract: In a method for testing a software system that operates a technical system including a technical system that is in operation by a customer, an operation model is generated that is based on a reproducible operation procedure under conditions relevant for the customer, and the operation of the technical system is monitored. The software system to be tested on the technical system of the customer is installed, and this technical system is operated and monitored with the operation model. Subsequently the operation of the technical system of the customer is evaluated with the operation model with regard to possible faulty executions.

Abstract: A local coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance system has an antenna arrangement that is arranged in a retainer structure. The retainer structure has a waistband and a perineum element. A person to be examined dons the local coil arrangement like trousers.

Abstract: In a method for diagnosing functional lung illnesses, image exposures of the lungs are obtained at various phase points in time of the respiration of a subject, such as at maximum inhalation and maximum expiration, and the image exposures are segmented and at least two of the image exposures are compared on a segment-by-segment basis to identify a change in tissue density between the compared segments, as an indicator of lung functioning.

Abstract: In a method and system for automatically processing studies of imaging examination systems, each of the studies is given a priority code. Dependent on its priority code, the study is either processed immediately on a first computer allocated to the appertaining imaging examination system or the study is first intermediately stored in a memory device for a later processing, and an identifier allocated to the study is stored in a processing job list. At later points in time, the studies whose identifiers are stored in the processing job list are processed according to a predefined sequence. The first computer has further computers allocated to it for this purpose. The availability of the allocated, further computers is then checked and, insofar as one of the allocated computers is available for a processing of the study, an intermediately stored study is communicated to the appertaining, allocated computer for processing.

Abstract: In a method and device for wireless energy transmission between a magnetic coil system, having multiple excitation coils located outside of a patient, to a working capsule located in the patient, the working capsule has at least one induction coil, and a positioning device determines the position and orientation of the working capsule relative to the magnetic coil system. Using the position and orientation information, the magnetic coil system generates a first magnetic field that exerts a force on the working capsule at a location of the working capsule in the patient. The magnetic system also uses at least one of the position or the orientation to generate a second magnetic field for energy transmission to the working capsule at the location within the patient.

Abstract: In a method for improving profitability of a medical procedure supervised through a medical facility, the medical procedure including ingestion of an endoscopy capsule by a patient of the medical facility, the endoscopy capsule is retrieved after being naturally voided by the patient after the endoscopy capsule traverses the gastrointestinal tract of the patient, and a reward is paid to a person who returns the retrieved endoscopy capsule to a location associated with the medical facility. An endoscopy capsule usable with this procedure has a capsule body containing medical data-gathering components, and an exchangeable cover that covers the capsule body that is formed of a material allowing removal of the cover after the capsule has passed through the gastrointestinal tract of the patient, so that a new cover can be provided on the capsule body.

Abstract: An endoscopy system has an endo-robot that is navigable within an anatomical lumen of a patient by interacting with a magnetic field generated by an extracorporeal magnet system. The patient lies on a patient bed that is movable in one or more directions and/or orientations, and an obstacle detects objects in the movement path of the endo-robot in the anatomical lumen and produces a signal that causes the position and/or orientation of the patient bed to be altered dependent thereon.

Abstract: An endoscopy capsule has a capsule housing containing at least one magnetic element that interacts with an extracorporeally applied magnetic field to magnetically navigate the endoscopy capsule within a body lumen of a patient. The capsule housing has a tube connected thereto that is composed of a flexible, non-rigid material, i.e., of insufficient rigidity to feed the capsule housing in the body lumen. The tube is provided with a feed path for providing any of a liquid agent, a gaseous agent, electrical power and data between the capsule housing an extracorporeal source.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus has a transmission and reception coil system and a gradient coil system that is designed to generate a gradient field that is periodic in one spatial direction. The gradient field and/or the examination subject can be displaced in the spatial direction of the periodicity to generate a relative position change between the periodic gradient field and an examination subject, and the transmission and reception coil system comprises individually-activatable coil arrays to allow data to be acquired to fill in gaps or resolve ambiguous data entries that occur due to the gradient field being periodic.

Abstract: A biosensor includes an analysis unit and a reader device for detecting an analyte. In at least one embodiment, the analysis unit includes a quartz oscillator on whose surface capture molecules, which bind specifically to the analyte, are immobilized; as well as a transponder to transmit information, regarding whether and/or how many analyte molecules have bound to the capture molecules, to the reader device.

Abstract: In a method for selectively enabling or blocking the use of medical equipment made available by a vendor or a system option in the medical equipment, for a customer, wherein the equipment is arranged in a facility of the customer, a compilation is created and stored at a vendor's computer from which it proceeds whether the customer is permitted to use the medical equipment overall or which system option of the medical equipment the customer is permitted to use. Given a desired utilization of the medical equipment or a system option of the medical equipment by the customer, a check is made at the vendor's computer as to see whether the customer is authorized for the use and whether costs arising from previous use are to be paid. The use is automatically enabled when the authorization still exists and no costs are outstanding, or the use is automatically inhibited when there is no authorization or costs are still outstanding.

Abstract: A computer-based 3D imaging method is for a wireless endoscope unit, equipped with a camera, of the size of a capsule that can be swallowed by the patient. A medical apparatus is for the pseudo three-dimensional representation of the surroundings of the endoscope unit. The images recorded by the camera are subjected to a pattern recognition algorithm for identifying common features of chronologically successive individual images. Individual images that show spatially coherent structures are concatenated by superimposing common image features in the course of an image conditioning procedure in order to produce a pseudo three-dimensional representation.

Abstract: In a method and medical examination apparatus for determination of the position of at least one slice in an examination area in which slice a slice image acquisition of the examination area by means of the examination device is to occur, a 3D image dataset of the examination area is acquired, which is then brought into registration with a chronologically earlier acquired 3D reference image dataset. The slice in the 3D image dataset is determined by at least one reference slice defined in the 3D reference image dataset.

Abstract: A system and method of providing after sales support for medical systems is described. During the economic lifetime of a medical system, new or modified software modules may become available as a result of advances in medical knowledge or the technology of the medical system. Such updates or improvements may be provided to customers with suitable existing medical systems by making such modules available for licensing on a pay-per-use or a paid-up license basis. Information regarding the after sales support is maintained on a data base by the manufacturer and provided to customers over a wide-area network. The information may be customized on the basis of the existing configuration of the customer medical system to indicate the additional modules that are available.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for calibrating a magnetic resonance apparatus having a PET function. In at least one embodiment, the device includes at least one marker that is visible through magnetic resonance imaging and fixed with reference to the device; at least one holder, fixed with reference to the marker, for a receptacle for holding a PET tracer generating a PET signal during PET imaging; and at least one receptacle for holding a PET tracer.

Abstract: A positron emission tomography unit (PET), having a unit part assigned to an examination space and a first evaluation unit, is combined with a magnetic resonance tomography unit (MRT). The unit part of the PRT includes at least two gamma ray detector units with in each case an assigned electronics unit. The MRT includes a second evaluation unit, a gradient coil system and a high frequency antenna device formed as a stripline antenna device having at least two conductors. The high frequency antenna device is arranged nearer to the examination space than the gradient coil system with a high frequency shield between the gradient coil system and the high frequency antenna device. Each conductor of the stripline antenna device respectively includes a gamma ray detector unit with an assigned electronics unit.