Fluoroscopy Patents (Class 378/42)
  • Patent number: 11901152
    Abstract: Some example embodiments provide an x-ray tube for a stereoscopic imaging having an evacuated x-ray tube housing; an electron emitter apparatus in the x-ray tube housing, the electron emitter apparatus including a first field effect emitter with a first emitter surface and a second field effect emitter with a second emitter surface, at least one of the first emitter surface or the second emitter surface being segmented such that a portion of the at least one of the first emitter surface or the second emitter surface can be set relative to the respective overall emitter surface by selectively switching emitter segments of the at least one of the first emitter surface or the second emitter surface; an anode unit in the x-ray tube housing, the anode unit configured to generate x-ray radiation for the stereoscopic imaging as a function of electrons striking two focal points; and a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Geithner, Jörg Freudenberger, Christoph Jud, Anja Fritzler, Josef Deuringer, Peter Hackenschmied
  • Patent number: 11750788
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a real-time surgery method and apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic augmented view of a patient from a static or dynamic viewpoint of the surgeon, which employs real-time three-dimensional surface reconstruction for preoperative and intraoperative image registration. Stereoscopic cameras provide real-time images of the scene including the patient. A stereoscopic video display is used by the surgeon, who sees a graphical representation of the preoperative or intraoperative images blended with the video images in a stereoscopic manner through a see-through display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: OnPoint Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Quiles Casas
  • Patent number: 11670053
    Abstract: The invention relates to non-destructive imaging of the internal structure for safe and intuitive operator work. In the context of the invented method, electronic scanning first creates a virtual image of the surface of the object (5) whose internal structure is the subject of research. Part of the surface of the object (5) and the angle of scanning are set by voice or by movement of the operator's body (9). The virtual image of the surface of the object (5) is subsequently projected in the stereoscopic glasses (7), followed by creation of the virtual image of the internal structure of the object (5) for the same angle of scanning. The virtual image of the internal structure is projected in the virtual image of the surface of the object (5), or replaces the virtual image of the object (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: RADALYTICA A.S.
    Inventors: Josef Uher, Jan Zahalka
  • Patent number: 11666291
    Abstract: An apparatus for Digital Imaging in the Head Region of a Patient includes an X-ray source and an X-ray sensor, supported on i a rotary arm supported on a structure by a motor driven translation and rotation means. The rotary arm is provided with adjustment means for varying the distance between the source and the sensor. The apparatus comprises a single sensor for both panoramic imaging and computed tomography, and has a control unit, that controls the source, the sensor, the adjustment means, and the translation and rotation means and operates the apparatus in a basic operation mode for bigger patients and in an alternative operation mode for smaller patients, in which the distance between the source and the sensor is reduced as compared to the distance used for the basic operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Claudio Giani, Giuseppe Rotondo, Costantino Nettis, Gianfranco Venturino, Gerardo Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 11478213
    Abstract: A mobile radiography apparatus is configured to sparsely sample radiographic projection images to generate high resolution tomosynthesis volume images using a digital radiographic detector that is mechanically uncoupled from the x-ray source and an artificial intelligence network. The artificial intelligence network is trained to correct a volume image generated from sparsely sample projection images to generate the high resolution tomosynthesis volume images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohui Wang, William J. Sehnert, Levon O. Vogelsang, David H. Foos, Yuan Lin
  • Patent number: 11483532
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a real-time surgery method and apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic augmented view of a patient from a static or dynamic viewpoint of the surgeon, which employs real-time three-dimensional surface reconstruction for preoperative and intraoperative image registration. Stereoscopic cameras provide real-time images of the scene including the patient. A stereoscopic video display is used by the surgeon, who sees a graphical representation of the preoperative or intraoperative images blended with the video images in a stereoscopic manner through a see-through display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: OnPoint Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Quiles Casas
  • Patent number: 11365140
    Abstract: A decision support system and method can be used to control a water treatment or distribution system. The decision support system collects data from multiple water system operators and analyses the data for a selected water system according to one or more rules or algorithms. The system returns data, optionally including alerts or predictions, to the system operator. Optionally, the decision support system uses machine learning applied to (i) historical data from a selected water system and/or (ii) data from other water systems to modify the rules or algorithms used to analyze current data from a selected water system. In some embodiments, the data collected includes microbial population data such as ATP data, optionally including derivatives of microbial population data; microbial speciation information; or, metagenomic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: LUMINULTRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick Andrew Whalen, Jordan Jeremy Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11350072
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a real-time surgery method and apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic augmented view of a patient from a static or dynamic viewpoint of the surgeon, which employs real-time three-dimensional surface reconstruction for preoperative and intraoperative image registration. Stereoscopic cameras provide real-time images of the scene including the patient. A stereoscopic video display is used by the surgeon, who sees a graphical representation of the preoperative or intraoperative images blended with the video images in a stereoscopic manner through a see-through display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: OnPoint Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Quiles Casas
  • Patent number: 11213259
    Abstract: An imaging system comprising a radiation source and radiation thereby; a detector having an input surface; a monitor configured to display images detected by the detector; a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for determining at least one Region of Interest (ROI) on a displayed image; and a collimator comprising means for modulating intensity of the radiation according to the at least one ROI; wherein the GUI comprises means for displaying detected images and means for determining shape and location of the at least one ROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CONTROLRAD, INC.
    Inventors: Haim Zvi Melman, Liron Melman, Gilad Nave-Frost, Allon Guez
  • Patent number: 11202611
    Abstract: Provided is an X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus capable of more assuredly preventing operation control not intended by an operator. A console includes a first operation lever and a second operation lever. The first operation lever includes a main body tiltable in an x-direction or a y-direction and a rotation portion rotatable about a long axis of the first operation lever. The operation of rotating C-arm about the x-axis or the y-axis is controlled by the tilting operation of the main body, and the operation of controlling the approaching movement or the separating movement of the X-ray detector is controlled depending on a rotation direction and a rotation amount of the rotation portion. The second operation lever controls the operation of translating the C-arm in the x-direction or the y-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihide Magari, Shinya Hasebe
  • Patent number: 11122221
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus suitable for detecting an image, comprising: a plurality of pixels configured to generate an electric signal upon exposure to a radiation; an electronics system associated with each of the pixels, wherein the electronics system comprises a first memory on a first signal path and a second memory on a second signal path, both signal paths being between an input terminal and an output terminal of the electronics system; wherein each of the first memory and the second memory is configured to store the electric signal generated by the pixel the electronics system is associated with, configured to store the electric signal generated in another pixel, and configured to transmit the electric signal stored in the electronics system to another pixel; wherein the electronics system comprises a switch configured to select one of the signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Huabin Cheng, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 11065065
    Abstract: A method comprises the steps of: imaging a patient anatomy; selecting an implant strategy for at least one bone fastener having a first member; registering the imaging of the patient anatomy with imaging of a surgical driver; engaging the first member with tissue of the patient anatomy via the surgical driver according to the implant strategy; manipulating the patient anatomy; acquiring data points representative of a position of the first member relative to tissue; and retrieving the data points from a computer database for attaching a second member with the first member. Systems, spinal constructs, implants and surgical instruments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
    Inventors: William Alan Rezach, Mark C. Dace, Richard Quinn Brown, Rodney Ray Ballard
  • Patent number: 10974067
    Abstract: A radiation irradiating apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a past cumulative dose distribution associated with patient identifying information, from a storage that is storable a cumulative dose distribution. The processing circuitry calculates a first cumulative dose distribution and a second cumulative dose distribution during a radiation irradiation to a patient associated with the patient identifying information, the first cumulative dose distribution being a cumulative dose distribution, the second cumulative dose distribution being generated by adding the first cumulative dose distribution to the past cumulative dose distribution. The processing circuitry displays, on a display, at least one of the first and second cumulative dose distributions during the radiation irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ishii, Takeshi Ezumi
  • Patent number: 10863961
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to sequentially acquire X-ray images; to set a unit number of frames used as a unit during image processing; and to sequentially generate images in each of which a pixel value of each pixel expresses either the largest pixel value or the smallest pixel value among corresponding pixels in X-ray images corresponding to the unit number of frames, on the basis of the X-ray images corresponding to the unit number of frames including each of new X-ray image that is sequentially acquired and at least one X-ray image acquired before the new X-ray image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shumpei Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10736598
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a fixed object included in chronologically collected X-ray images and having a substantially fixed position. The processing circuitry detects a target object included in each of the X-ray images, on the basis of extraction results of the fixed object. The processing circuitry generates a plurality of corrected images by a correction process to substantially match, with a reference position, the detected position of the target object in an X-ray image other than a reference X-ray image, the reference position being the detected position of the target object in the reference X-ray image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Masahiro Ozawa, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10621738
    Abstract: A method for performing 2D/3D registration includes acquiring a 3D image. A pre-contrast 2D image is acquired. A sequence of post-contrast 2D images is acquired. A 2D image is acquired from a second view. The first view pre-contrast 2D image is subtracted from each of the first view post-contrast 2D images to produce a set of subtraction images. An MO image is generated from the subtraction images. A 2D/3D registration result is generated by optimizing a measure of similarity between a first synthetic 2D image and the MO image and a measure of similarity between a second synthetic image and the intra-operative 2D image from the second view by iteratively adjusting an approximation of the pose of the patient in the synthetic images and iterating the synthetic images using the adjusted approximation of the pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Shun Miao, Rui Liao, Marcus Pfister
  • Patent number: 10492747
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a linear slide assembly to assist in the motion of an arm that moves vertically in an arc with the center of access statically attached to the linear slide assembly which is to be utilized in the field of portable x-ray imaging and more specifically, a system and method for extending and retracting a vertically moveable arm in a limited linear motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: KUB Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin Divakaran, Timothy Ely, Vikram Butani, Chester Lowe, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 10456593
    Abstract: A radiation irradiating apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a past cumulative dose distribution associated with patient identifying information, from a storage that is storable a cumulative dose distribution. The processing circuitry calculates a first cumulative dose distribution and a second cumulative dose distribution during a radiation irradiation to a patient associated with the patient identifying information, the first cumulative dose distribution being a cumulative dose distribution, the second cumulative dose distribution being generated by adding the first cumulative dose distribution to the past cumulative dose distribution. The processing circuitry displays, on a display, at least one of the first and second cumulative dose distributions during the radiation irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ishii, Takeshi Ezumi
  • Patent number: 10453174
    Abstract: An image registration system employs an endoscope and an endoscope controller. In operation, the endoscope generates an intra-operative endoscopic image of a vessel tree (e.g., an arterial tree or a venous tree) within an anatomical region, and the endoscope controller image registers the intra-operative endoscopic image of the vessel tree to a pre-operative three-dimensional image of the vessel tree within the anatomical region. The image registration includes an image matching of a graphical representation of each furcation of the vessel tree within the intra-operative endoscopic image of the vessel tree to a graphical representation of each furcation of the vessel tree within the pre-operative three-dimensional image of the vessel tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Aleksandra Popovic, Haytham Elhawary, Christopher Stephen Hall
  • Patent number: 10433804
    Abstract: The invention is a device for controlling the amount of radiation emitted during the process of imaging, particularly by instruments capable of radiation-based real-time imaging, such as fluoroscopy and cine acquisition. The related device comprises a pressure-sensitive foot controller (1), a pressure sensor (2), a signal transmitter (3), a signal converter (4), and signal processing software (5). The invention enables real-time controlling of the image quality and the image frame rate by means of a foot-switcher with the new function of being driven by a pressure-sensitive controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: EKIN EFE OZEL SAGLIK HIZMETLERI MEDIKAL TEKNOLOJI AR-GE GIDA INSAAT SAN. TIC. LTD. STI.
    Inventor: Ertugrul Ercan
  • Patent number: 10405931
    Abstract: Provided is a medical robot arm apparatus including a plurality of joint units configured to connect a plurality of links and implement at least 6 or more degrees of freedom in driving of a multi-link structure configured with the plurality of links, and a drive control unit configured to control driving of the joint units based on states of the joint units. A front edge unit attached to a front edge of the multi-link structure is at least one medical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuharu Fukushima, Wataru Kokubo, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Atsushi Miyamoto, Kenichiro Nagasaka, Kenji Hirose
  • Patent number: 10383594
    Abstract: An image brightness adjustment method and an image brightness adjustment device are provided in the present disclosure. A brightness of a fluoroscopic image obtained by irradiating an object with an initial fluoroscopic dose of X-rays is acquired as an initial brightness. A current load corresponding to the initial brightness is determined according to a relationship between image brightness and loads for the initial fluoroscopic dose, where the current load indicates an X-ray blocking ability of the object. Then, a stable fluoroscopic dose corresponding to the current load is determined according to a relationship between load and stable fluoroscopic dose, where the stable fluoroscopic dose is used to obtain a fluoroscopic image of a predetermined brightness for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHENYANG NEUSOFT MEDICAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dexin Wang
  • Patent number: 10379066
    Abstract: An X-ray transmission inspection apparatus capable of easily performing the adjustment by a standard sample is provided. The apparatus is provided with an X-ray source; an X-ray detector; a standard sample moving mechanism configured to move a standard sample placed in a different position from that of a sample; and an arrangement changing mechanism configured to be in a such a manner that the X-ray source and the X-ray detector, and the sample and the standard sample are movable relative to each other, and configured to change an arrangement state from one arrangement state in which the X-ray source and the X-ray detector face the sample to the other arrangement state in which the X-ray source and the X-ray detector face the standard sample that is moved by the standard sample moving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Takahara
  • Patent number: 10321918
    Abstract: Methods for preparing a bone in surgery using an imaging system, a navigation system having a locating device, and a robotic system having a cutting tool. A cannula is guided into an incision to expand the incision and provide access to the bone so that the cutting tool is insertable through the cannula to remove material from the bone. An implant is insertable through the cannula to be placed in the bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Bonutti Skeletal Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Peter M. Bonutti
  • Patent number: 10231685
    Abstract: A method operates an x-ray system for examining an object. In order to optimize the operation of an x-ray system, in particular the dose regulation and/or the image processing, the following method steps are performed. Radiation is passed through the object to be examined and a number of fluoroscopic images of the object are generated. A relevant image region of a fluoroscopic image is selected by a user of the x-ray system. An image-based dose regulation of the radiation dose used for passing radiation through the object is carried out using the selected image region and/or image processing is carried out using the selected image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Bialkowski, Bernhard Geiger, Stefan Schneider, Jan Steinbrener
  • Patent number: 10163205
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a three dimensional visualization method for visualizing and/or displaying a limited zone of a patient's vasculature, the method comprising selecting an entry point within an imaged vasculature and three dimensionally visualizing a simulated contrast agent propagation from the selected entry point in a limited zone of the imaged vasculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yves Lucien Trousset, Cyril Riddell, Vincent Jonas Bismuth
  • Patent number: 9962131
    Abstract: An X-ray generator generating an X-ray cone beam and a two-dimensional X-ray detector detecting the X-ray cone beam are supported by a support arm while facing each other, and the X-ray generator and the two-dimensional X-ray detector are turned with an object interposed therebetween. A filter constitution body is disposed between the two-dimensional X-ray detector and the object. Filters having X-ray beam energy distribution conversion characteristics different from each other are arrayed in the filter constitution body. In X-ray photography, a filter constitution body moving mechanism is moved in a direction along a detection surface of the two-dimensional X-ray detector such that the filter constitution body traverses the X-ray cone beam in turning the support arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: J. Morita Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Yoshikawa, Tomoyuki Sadakane, Yoshito Sugihara
  • Patent number: 9967961
    Abstract: A system for providing a simulated spatial live viewing of an object includes a cathode arrangement configured to generate an electron beam towards a target area of an anode, and a processor configured to control the electron beam to hit the anode at a moving focal spot that moves at least in a first moving direction transverse to a viewing direction. Thus, X-ray radiation is generated by the electron beam impinging on the moving focal spot. Further, the system includes a detector configured to detect X-ray radiation at least partially passing an object and to generate respective X-ray detection signals. The processor is further configured to generate monoscopic 2D images based on the detection signals, where the monoscopic 2D images relate to different view-points as defined by the moving focal spot. A display is configured to display the monoscopic 2D images are from the different view-points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Heidrun Steinhauser, Michiel Wouter De Wildt
  • Patent number: 9888899
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to one embodiment includes an X-ray generating device, an X-ray detector, an image generation device, a display device, a portion detection device, and an attenuation device. The X-ray generation device generates X-rays to irradiate an object. The X-ray detector detects X-rays transmitted through the object. The image generation device generates an X-ray image based on the detected X-rays. The display device displays the X-ray image. The portion detection device detects an exposure dose reduction target portion based on the X-ray image. The attenuation device attenuates the X-rays to irradiate a region including the detected portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shimizu, Manabu Tanaka, Teruomi Gunji, Takayuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9538969
    Abstract: A management apparatus which manages an image captured in a radiation detection apparatus by irradiation with radiation, manages imaging information which is input by a user and serves as information for imaging, obtains the captured image, and associates the obtained image with the imaging information. The management apparatus, when a mis-exposure notification is received from the radiation detection apparatus and manages the necessary imaging information, obtains the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Nishii, Hikaru Tanaka, Tomohiko Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 9170219
    Abstract: A method for quantitatively testing a radiation shielding garment to determine its radiation shielding integrity, utilizing a fluoroscopic system, the method comprising measuring the amount of radiation passing through the garment at a particular location believed to be possibly damaged; measuring the amount of radiation at one or more locations of the garment believed to be intact; determining the average undamaged transmission if more than one location is tested; and comparing the two values of transmitted radiation to determine whether the first location was damaged beyond an acceptable degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Bar-Ray Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Beck
  • Patent number: 9101761
    Abstract: In the case where X-ray tubes and X-ray detectors have fixed directions (directions of irradiation and directions of detecting planes), X-ray fluoroscopy can be carried out from various directions by providing two U-shaped tracks for the X-ray tubes and the X-ray detectors, each having two straight tracks arranged opposite each other, and a curved track connected thereto. An increased number of directions for X-ray fluoroscopy can be secured by arranging a U-shaped track rail for the X-ray tubes and a U-shaped track rail for the X-ray detectors opposite each other when seen in plane view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayori Ishikawa, Naoki Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Sasagawa, Seiji Yamanaka, Junichi Yamazaki, Masayuki Yamaji, Hirokazu Yamawaki
  • Publication number: 20150146847
    Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining and displaying an X-ray image are described. The X-ray system contains an X-ray source, a CMOS based X-ray detector containing an active area for detecting an X-ray beam from the X-ray source, the active area containing an array of physical detector pixels having a pixel size or dimension ranging from about 10 ?m×10 ?m to about 50 ?m×50 ?m, a collimator defining an aperture, wherein the collimator is configured for a user to center the aperture over any portion of the active area of the CMOS based X-ray detector, and a display device configured to receive and display an X-ray image containing an array of virtual image pixels that have been previously binned at the CMOS based X-ray detector. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: James Zhengshe Liu
  • Patent number: 9036777
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an imaging unit configured to image an affected area in two directions using X-rays; a fluoroscopic image generating unit configured to generate two X-ray fluoroscopic images corresponding to the two directions, on a basis of imaging signals outputted from the imaging unit; a rendering image generating unit configured to project the affected area contained in three-dimensional image data acquired in advance, in two directions according to a same X-ray geometry as that used for imaging the X-ray fluoroscopic images, to thereby generate two affected area rendering images; and an image combining unit configured to combine the X-ray fluoroscopic images with the affected area rendering images for each corresponding direction, to thereby generate combined parallax images in two parallax directions corresponding to the two directions, and to output the two generated combined parallax images to a 3D display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Ohishi, Hisato Takemoto
  • Patent number: 9031186
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus according to one embodiment captures an X-ray image by irradiating a subject with X-rays from an X-ray generating means, and detecting X-rays that have penetrated the subject with an X-ray detecting means, and includes a working-state detecting means and an X-ray dosage control means. The working-state detecting means detects a plurality of types of working-state information related to the working state of the operator performing surgery on the subject. The X-ray dosage control means, based on the plurality of types of detection results detected by the working-state detecting means, controls the X-ray dosage irradiated from the X-ray generating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Kyojiro Nambu
  • Patent number: 9020097
    Abstract: There is provided a radiographic imaging system that has: a radiographic imaging device at which fluoroscopic imaging, that carries out capturing of radiographic images continuously, is possible; a radiation irradiating device that irradiates radiation in a pulse form with respect to the radiographic imaging device at a time of fluoroscopic imaging; and a controller that controls the radiation irradiating device such that radiation is pulse-irradiated at the radiographic imaging device with a proportion of an irradiation time period of radiation being set within a range of 12.5% to 80% with respect to each frame time period for capturing respective frame images according to a frame rate of fluoroscopic imaging, while capturing of radiographic images is carried out at the radiographic imaging device synchronously with the pulse irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Yutaka Yoshida, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 9014423
    Abstract: A method and system for adaptive discriminant learning and measurement fusion for image based catheter tracking is disclosed. An adaptive discriminant model is trained online based on a tracked object, such as a pigtail catheter tip, in at least one previous frame of a fluoroscopic image sequence. The object is tracked in the current frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence based at least on the adaptive discriminant model trained online. The object may be tracked in the current frame based on a fusion of three types of measurement models including the adaptive discriminant model trained online, an object detection model trained offline, and an online appearance model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peng Wang, Yefeng Zheng, Matthias John, Jan Boese, Gareth Funka-Lea, Dorin Comaniciu
  • Publication number: 20150078515
    Abstract: A system attenuates scatter radiation during a radiological procedure. The radiological procedure using a radiation machine including an emitter, a receiver, a base, and a table for a patient. The base is supported by a floor. The system includes a barrier formed of a radiation attenuation material and positioned over an area on the floor. The barrier is comprised of an elastomeric material and disposed beneath the table. The barrier on the floor can reduce substantial amounts of scatter radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Worldwide Innovations & Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Cadwalader, William Paul Radtke
  • Publication number: 20150078516
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, an X-ray filter, signal input unit, and an X-ray filter support unit. The X-ray tube generates X-rays. The X-ray detector detects the X-rays transmitted through a subject. The X-ray filter is arranged between the X-ray tube and the object and having an opening. The X-ray filter support unit supports the X-ray filter so as to make the X-ray filter movable in an imaging axis direction of the X-rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shumpei OHASHI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Koichiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150043712
    Abstract: A portable imaging apparatus for obtaining stereoscopic radiography images has a transport frame that has a support structure and an x-ray source array that is coupled to the support structure and that has three or more x-ray sources, each x-ray source separately energizable to emit radiation toward a subject. There is at least one x-ray detector adapted to acquire digital image data according to radiation received from the x-ray sources of the x-ray source array. An image processor is in signal communication with the at least one x-ray detector and adapted to generate, from the acquired digital image data, a right-eye digital image and a left-eye digital image of the subject. A display apparatus is in signal communication with the image processor and is adapted to display the right-eye and left-eye digital images of the subject to a viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaohui Wang, Richard A. Simon, David H. Foos
  • Publication number: 20150045657
    Abstract: A radioscopy system comprises a frame, a radiation generating part, a radiation receiving part, a camera, a central processing part, and a display part. The frame has ring-shaped or partially ring-shaped form. The radiation generating part comprises a first and second radiation generator irradiating toward a first and second surface of an operational object. The radiation receiving part comprises a first and second radiation receiver receiving radiations generated from the first and second radiation generators. The camera comprises a first and second camera capturing a first and second surface of the operational objet. The central processing part generates a first and second fluoroscopy image, a first and second augmented image through combining the first and second fluoroscopy images and the first and second images captured by the first and second cameras. The display part displays the first and second augmented image. Accordingly, doctors may operate the operational object using the augmented images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Min-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 8942789
    Abstract: In a method for fluoroscopy controlled insertion of a stent into a curved aorta for aneurysm repair, a 3D volume image is obtained of a patient's aorta at the aneurysm. By knowing a registration of the 3D volume image to a C-arm of an angiographic system and projection geometry of the angiography system, the 3D volume images are projected to a 2D fluoroscopy image of the angiography system. For the 2D3D overlay, the 3D volume image is displayed as a curved planar reconstruction in which the 2D fluoroscopy image and the 3D volume image are warped around a curved center line of the curved aorta or around a curved guide instrument center line to correct for the curvature of the aorta so that the previously curved aorta center line or curved center line of the guide instrument turns into a straight line to visualize insertion of the stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Ostermeier, Marcus Pfister
  • Publication number: 20150023466
    Abstract: An x-ray system comprising an x-ray source, a single essentially round collimator, a camera, a detector and a monitor, means for moving the collimator in a plane generally parallel to the plane of the collimator; and the collimator comprising a central aperture that allows all the radiation to pass through, an outer annulus that reduces the radiation passing through at an amount depending on the material and the thickness of the material and an inner annulus between the central aperture and the outer annulus, with thickness changing as a function of the distance from the center, starting at thickness zero on the side of the central aperture and ending at the thickness of the outer annulus on the side of the outer annulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Haim Zvi Melman
  • Publication number: 20140369466
    Abstract: In a radiation imaging system performing a difference process using a stored mask image based on a radiation image obtained before a contrast agent is injected and a radiation image obtained after the contrast agent is injected, a controller displays a first graphic representing a first timing when irradiation of a radial ray is started, a second graphic representing a second timing when the mask image is stored, and a third graphic representing a third timing when the contrast agent is injected in this order along a time axis and controls the second and third timings by the second and third graphics. The controller moves, when one of the second and third graphics is moved along the time axis, the other of the second and third graphics such that an interval between the first and third graphics becomes larger than an interval between the first and second graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Hironori Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20140369465
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for graphical assistance in an interventional procedure to open an occlusion of a hollow organ of a patient a three-dimensional CT image data set of an examination region with the at least one hollow organ having the occlusion is retrieved and visualized segmentation data with segmentation data of the hollow organ at a display unit. At least two x-ray fluoroscopy images are acquired at different angulations the CT image data set is registered with at least two of the x-ray images. A number of fluoroscopy x-ray images are acquired during a time period, with real-time visualization of at least one x-ray fluoroscopy image and data of the CT image data set at the display unit. The steps are implemented individually and in sequence, and control options relating exclusively to the current step can be selected manually via a user interface depending on the step that is currently implemented, and only user inputs that are appropriate for the current step are accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Norbert Rahn, Markus Rossmeier
  • Patent number: 8908826
    Abstract: A method for stereoscopic x-ray imaging by a stereoscopic x-ray tube and by an x-ray radiation detector is provided. The x-ray radiation detector has a buffer. The stereoscopic x-ray tube has two x-ray beam sources disposed a short distance from one another. 2D image datasets are acquired at relatively short intervals one after the other, which have good quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Bernhardt, Martin Spahn
  • Publication number: 20140348292
    Abstract: Provided is a radiographic apparatus configured to obtain an animated image of a fluoroscopic image, and thereafter complete fluoroscopy temporarily for taking a static image or the animated image for diagnosis, the radiographic apparatus allowing taking an image of a subject with suitable brightness. The apparatus determines a control condition (radiography condition) of an X-ray tube for taking the static image in accordance with the control condition of the X-ray tube upon obtaining the fluoroscopic image. With the disclosure, brightness of the subject contained in the fluoroscopic image is also regarded upon determination of the radiography condition. This achieves obtaining the suitable radiography condition even when obtaining the animated image stops before radiation has appropriate intensity during obtaining a live image. Accordingly, the apparatus in the disclosure allows obtaining a clear image with appropriate exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Katsuhiro YABUGAMI
  • Patent number: 8737562
    Abstract: A body section radiographic apparatus for serially acquiring a series of fluoroscopic images while synchronously moving a radiation source and a radiation detecting device, and obtaining a sectional image of a subject from the series of fluoroscopic images. The apparatus includes, besides the radiation source which emits a beam of radiation and the radiation detecting device which is opposed to the radiation source and has a plurality of radiation detecting elements, a synchronous moving device for moving the radiation source and the radiation detecting device synchronously with each other, and a radiation grid disposed to cover a radiation detecting plane of the radiation detecting device for removing scattered radiation. The fluoroscopic images are serially acquired while moving the radiation grid relative to the radiation detecting device to change positions where radiation transmission unevenness of the radiation grid is projected on the radiation detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Notohara, Kazuyoshi Nishino, Mikihiko Kato, Koichi Shibata
  • Patent number: 8724772
    Abstract: An X-ray fluoroscopic radiographing apparatus comprises a display unit that processes a received X-ray moving image and instantaneously displays the moving image; a storing unit that stores the received moving image as a non-processed raw image; an instructing unit that instructs the raw image to be referred to from the stored raw images; a second display unit that processes the instructed raw image and displays the processed raw image; a changing unit that changes the image process in the second display unit; a second storing unit that stores image process information obtained by the changing unit in association with the instructed raw image; a second instructing unit that instructs the raw image to be transferred from the stored raw images; and a transferring unit that executes the image process associated by the second storing unit to the instructed raw image and transfers the processed raw image to a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Nishii
  • Patent number: 8681942
    Abstract: Fluoroscopy imaging systems including an X-ray generator, a detector, and control circuitry coupled to the detector are provided. The control circuitry may be adapted to receive a digital signal from the detector, to process the digital signal, and to communicate the processed digital signal to a monitor for display during a fluoroscopy imaging operation. The fluoroscopy imaging systems may also include a user interface having at least one configurable adjustment configured to enable a user to adjust one or more imaging parameters affecting the digital signal during the fluoroscopy imaging operation. The control circuitry is adapted to set at least one of a range of the configurable adjustment, a step size of the configurable adjustment, or a default value of the configurable adjustment based on input from the user via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Romain Xavier Areste, Vivek Walimbe