Patents by Inventor Stephan Erbel
Stephan Erbel 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: 20240139230Abstract: dsRNAi oligonucleotides can be used in methods for the treatment of NASH, preferably the advanced fibrotic and/or cirrhotic stages thereof, using dosage regimens comprising a loading phase followed by a maintenance phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jens Markus BORGHARDT, Marc ABRAMS, Andre BROERMANN, Bob Dale BROWN, Kevin CRAIG, Henryk T. DUDEK, Saskia ERBEL, Boris FERGER, Felix JOST, Martin Lee KOSER, Jihye PARK, Utsav SAXENA, Bernhard SCHMID, Florian SOMMER, Stephan TENBAUM, Ingo UPHUES
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Patent number: 10357664Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for controlling a process of monitoring the position of at least a part of a patient's body (1) during a radiation treatment, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing an energy value which is dependent on the radiation energy applied to the patient's body (1); b) controlling the time at which the monitoring process is performed, in accordance with the energy value.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Stephan Erbel
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Patent number: 9730654Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the position of an object moving within a body, wherein the body is connected to markers, a movement signal is determined based on the measured movement of the markers, images are taken from the object using a camera or detector, wherein the camera or detector is moved with respect to the object, it is determined from which direction or range of angles or segment the most images corresponding to a predefined cycle of the movement signal are taken, and using at least some or all of the images of the segment containing the most images for a specified movement cycle, an image of the object is reconstructed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stephan Erbel, Kajetan Berlinger, Armin Fürst
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Patent number: 9508145Abstract: The present invention refers to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a relative position between the position of the bony structure and a reference position at a monitoring time, the relative position being referred to as monitoring bone position, wherein an anatomical structure of a patient includes the bony structure and a treatment body part to be treated by at least one treatment beam of a treatment device, the reference position having a defined relative position with respect to an actual arrangement of at least one position of the at least one treatment beam; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: •providing CBCT image data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the bony structure, the CBCT image representing the bony structure at a pre-alignment time; •providing x-ray image data describing at least one two-dimensional x-ray image of the anatomical structure, the at least one tType: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Franz Gum, Stephan Erbel
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Patent number: 9489734Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a position of a treatment body part relative to an actual arrangement of at least one position of a treatment beam issued by a treatment device, the position being called monitoring tissue position and the treatment body part being a soft tissue part of an anatomical structure of a patient; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: ? providing CBCT data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the anatomical structure, the three dimensional CBCT image representing the treatment body part and a bony structure in a relative position to each other, called tissue-bone pre-alignment position, at a point in time, called pre-alignment time; ? providing x-ray data describing information on a position of the bony structure, called monitoring bone position, relative to the actual arrangement at a point in, time during treatment,Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Franz Gum, Stephan Erbel
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Patent number: 9254106Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a complete medical image data set from an incomplete image data set, comprising the method steps of: providing a first image data set which represents an image of a first region of a body, including at least a part of the surface of the body, at a first point in time; providing a second, incomplete image data set which represents an image of a second region of the body at a second point in time, wherein the first region and the second region overlap; providing a third data set which represents the contour of the body in the form of points on the surface of the body, substantially at the second point in time; adapting the first image data set to the second image data set by taking into account the third data set; and accepting the adapted first image data set as a complete image data set.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Kajetan Berlinger, Stephan Erbel
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Publication number: 20150360055Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for controlling a process of monitoring the position of at least a part of a patient's body (1) during a radiation treatment, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing an energy value which is dependent on the radiation energy applied to the patient's body (1); b) controlling the time at which the monitoring process is performed, in accordance with the energy value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Stefan VILSMEIER, Stephan ERBEL
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Patent number: 9149655Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for controlling a process of monitoring the position of at least a part of a patient's body (1) during a radiation treatment, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing an energy value which is dependent on the radiation energy applied to the patient's body (1); b) controlling the time at which the monitoring process is performed, in accordance with the energy value.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Stephan Erbel
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Patent number: 8789223Abstract: A patient positioning system for radiotherapy, comprising a device for positioning a patient within the framework of treatment planning, using image detection and/or carrying out radiation treatment, comprising a patient bed on which a patient is positioned, wherein means are provided by which the same bed may be arranged both on a planning couch for image detection within the framework of treatment planning as well as on a radiotherapy table, and by providing a reference means on the patient bed by which the position of the immobilized patient or of a marked radiation target is determined with respect to the patient bed. Within this framework, a corresponding method is also provided, as well as an adjusting means for the transport and the bed.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stephan Erbel, Stephan Fröhlich
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Publication number: 20140037173Abstract: The present invention refers to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a relative position between the position of the bony structure and a reference position at a monitoring time, the relative position being referred to as monitoring bone position, wherein an anatomical structure of a patient includes the bony structure and a treatment body part to be treated by at least one treatment beam of a treatment device, the reference position having a defined relative position with respect to an actual arrangement of at least one position of the at least one treatment beam; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: •providing CBCT image data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the bony structure, the CBCT image representing the bony structure at a pre-alignment time; •providing x-ray image data describing at least one two-dimensional x-ray image of the anatomical structure, the at least one tType: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2011Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: BRAINLAB AGInventors: Herrn Franz Gum, Stephan Erbel
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Publication number: 20130287167Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a position of a treatment body part relative to an actual arrangement of at least one position of a treatment beam issued by a treatment device, the position being called monitoring tissue position and the treatment body part being a soft tissue part of an anatomical structure of a patient; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: providing CBCT data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the anatomical structure, the three dimensional CBCT image representing the treatment body part and a bony structure in a relative position to each other, called tissue-bone pre-alignment position, at a point in time, called pre-alignment time; providing x-ray data describing information on a position of the bony structure, called monitoring bone position, relative to the actual arrangement at a point in, time during treatment, callType: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: Brainlab AGInventors: Franz Gum, Stephan Erbel
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Patent number: 8463005Abstract: A method for determining the position of a stent within a body, comprising the steps of: providing a 3D dataset of voxels representing a 3D image containing the stent; determining a starting position for the determination of the stent position; determining the axis of symmetry of the stent in the 3D dataset; determining a second dataset representing at least one image containing the stent in its present position; and determining the positional offset of the stent by image fusion using the 3D dataset and the second dataset and by penalizing a rotation around the axis of symmetry as compared to the starting position.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stephan Erbel, Verena Schultheis, Rainer Birkenbach
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Patent number: 8391955Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the position of an object moving within a body, wherein the body is connected to markers, a movement signal is determined based on the measured movement of the markers, images are taken from the object using a camera or detector, wherein the camera or detector is moved with respect to the object, it is determined from which direction or range of angles or segment the most images corresponding to a predefined cycle of the movement signal are taken, and using at least some or all of the images of the segment containing the most images for a specified movement cycle, an image of the object is reconstructed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stephan Erbel, Kajetan Berlinger, Armin Fürst
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Publication number: 20130006537Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for controlling a process of monitoring the position of at least a part of a patient's body (1) during a radiation treatment, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing an energy value which is dependent on the radiation energy applied to the patient's body (1); b) controlling the time at which the monitoring process is performed, in accordance with the energy value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Stephan Erbel
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Publication number: 20120123251Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the position of an object moving within a body, wherein the body is connected to markers, a movement signal is determined based on the measured movement of the markers, images are taken from the object using a camera or detector, wherein the camera or detector is moved with respect to the object, it is determined from which direction or range of angles or segment the most images corresponding to a pre-defined cycle of the movement signal are taken, and using at least some or all of the images of the segment containing the most images for a specified movement cycle, an image of the object is reconstructed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Stephan ERBEL, Kajetan Berlinger, Armin Fürst
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Publication number: 20110088166Abstract: A patient positioning system for radiotherapy, comprising a device for positioning a patient within the framework of treatment planning, using image detection and/or carrying out radiation treatment, comprising a patient bed on which a patient is positioned, wherein means are provided by which the same bed may be arranged both on a planning couch for image detection within the framework of treatment planning as well as on a radiotherapy table, and by providing a reference means on the patient bed by which the position of the immobilized patient or of a marked radiation target is determined with respect to the patient bed. Within this framework, a corresponding method is also provided, as well as an adjusting means for the transport and the bed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Stephan Erbel, Stephan Fröhlich
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Patent number: 7818838Abstract: The invention concerns a patient positioning system for radiotherapy, comprising a device for positioning a patient within the framework of treatment planning, using image detection and/or carrying out radiation treatment, comprising a patient bed (3, 42, 50) on which a patient is positioned, wherein means are provided by which the same bed (3, 42, 50) may be arranged both on a planning couch (8) for image detection within the framework of treatment planning as well as on a radiotherapy table (1, 44), and by providing a reference means (54) on the patient bed by which the position of the immobilised patient or of a marked radiation target is determined with respect to the patient bed (3, 42, 50). Within this framework, a corresponding method is also provided, as well as an adjusting means for the transport and the bed.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: BrainLAB AGInventors: Stephan Erbel, Stephan Fröhlich
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Publication number: 20100228340Abstract: A method for determining the position of a stent within a body, comprising the steps of: providing a 3D dataset of voxels representing a 3D image containing the stent; determining a starting position for the determination of the stent position; determining the axis of symmetry of the stent in the 3D dataset; determining a second dataset representing at least one image containing the stent in its present position; and determining the positional offset of the stent by image fusion using the 3D dataset and the second dataset and by penalizing a rotation around the axis of symmetry as compared to the starting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2009Publication date: September 9, 2010Inventors: Stephan Erbel, Verena Schultheis, Rainer Birkenbach
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Publication number: 20100195890Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a complete medical image data set from an incomplete image data set, comprising the method steps of: providing a first image data set which represents an image of a first region of a body, including at least a part of the surface of the body, at a first point in time; providing a second, incomplete image data set which represents an image of a second region of the body at a second point in time, wherein the first region and the second region overlap; providing a third data set which represents the contour of the body in the form of points on the surface of the body, substantially at the second point in time; adapting the first image data set to the second image data set by taking into account the third data set; and accepting the adapted first image data set as a complete image data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Kajetan BERLINGER, Stephan Erbel
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Patent number: RE47588Abstract: A patient positioning system for radiotherapy, comprising a device for positioning a patient within the framework of treatment planning, using image detection and/or carrying out radiation treatment, comprising a patient bed on which a patient is positioned, wherein means are provided by which the same bed may be arranged both on a planning couch for image detection within the framework of treatment planning as well as on a radiotherapy table, and by providing a reference means on the patient bed by which the position of the immobilized patient or of a marked radiation target is determined with respect to the patient bed. Within this framework, a corresponding method is also provided, as well as an adjusting means for the transport and the bed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stephan Erbel, Stephan Frochlich