Patents Examined by Anastasia Midkiff
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Patent number: 11202612Abstract: A medical image-processing apparatus according to embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire image data including a blood vessel of a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire an index value relating to blood flow at each position of the blood vessel by performing fluid analysis of a structure of the blood vessel included in the acquired image data. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire information indicating a display condition of the index value, as switching information to switch a display mode at displaying the index value. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a result image in which pixel values reflecting the index value are assigned in a display mode according to the switching information, for an image indicating a blood vessel of the subject. The processing circuitry is configured to cause a display to display the result image.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11199498Abstract: A portable spectrometer system is disclosed for more reliable and convenient on-site drug testing. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, the presently disclosed and/or claimed inventive concept(s) relates to a portable spectrometer system having a test strip having a fluorescent indicator, a fluorimeter, and a mobile computing device capable of determining the identity of an unknown substance in the sample.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Richard George Blair
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Patent number: 11197643Abstract: A detector system for an x-ray imaging device includes a detector chassis, a plurality of sub-assemblies mounted to the detector chassis and within an interior housing of the chassis, the sub-assemblies defining a detector surface, where each sub-assembly includes a thermally-conductive support mounted to the detector chassis, a detector module having an array of x-ray sensitive detector elements mounted to a first surface of the support, an electronics board mounted to a second surface of the support opposite the first surface, at least one electrical connector that connects the detector module to the electronics board, where the electronics board provides power to the detector module and receives digital x-ray image data from the detector module via the at least one electrical connector. Further embodiments include x-ray imaging systems, external beam radiation treatment systems having an integrated x-ray imaging system, and methods therefor.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Mobius Imaging, LLCInventors: Eugene A. Gregerson, Russell Stanton
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Patent number: 11191499Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a sensor substrate including a flexible base material, and an active area which is provided on a first surface of the base material and in which a plurality of pixels, which accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation, are formed; a conversion layer that is provided on the first surface side in the sensor substrate to convert radiation into the light; and a grid that is disposed on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the base material and has a removal portion that has a mesh-like radiation absorbing member provided between a plurality of partitions in units of a predetermined number of pixels to remove scattered radiation according to the radiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Keiichiro Sato, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
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Patent number: 11169100Abstract: A portable hand held XRF analyzer and method wherein an X-ray source directs X-rays to a sample and a detector detects photons emitted by the sample. A controller subsystem controlling the X-ray source an I/O section and is responsive to the detector and I/O section. The controller subsystem is configured to present to the user, via the I/O section, a choice to invoke an aluminum alloy algorithm test. An aluminum alloy algorithm test is invoked if the operator chooses the aluminum alloy algorithm test. Then, the X-ray source is operated at a predetermined voltage level and predetermined current level and the detector output is analyzed to determine elements and their concentrations present in the sample. Preferably, if the analysis fails to detect one or more common aluminum alloy elements present in the sample and/or fails to specify a particular aluminum alloy, then the X-ray source is automatically operated at a higher voltage and lower current level to repeat the analysis step.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SciAps, Inc.Inventor: Donald W. Sackett
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Patent number: 11164735Abstract: The invention provides an ion mobility analyzer apparatus and analysis method. The analyzer apparatus includes an ion source, two groups of parallel electrodes, a power supply unit and a detector. The drift region is formed between the two groups of parallel electrodes, and has an ion entrance connected to the ion source and an ion exit. Each group of parallel electrodes is located in a plane respectively, and the two planes are parallel to each other. The power supply unit is configured to apply direct current potentials on the two groups of parallel electrodes to form a direct current electric field that applies an opposing force on ions against the gas flow so that ions with different mobilities are trapped under the combined effect of the gas flow and the direct current electric field. The detector is connected to the ion exit to detect ions.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: SHIMADZU RESEARCH LABORATORY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Kent James Gillig, Keke Wang, Wenjian Sun, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Yupeng Cheng
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Patent number: 11134906Abstract: A mobile device, a host device, and an X-ray detector are provided. The mobile device includes a first communicator configured to receive identification information of the X-ray detector from the X-ray detector, and a second communicator configured to send the received identification information of the X-ray detector to the host device.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Seo Park, Woong Lee
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Patent number: 11103202Abstract: There is disclosed a mobile radiographic imaging apparatus including a component operable to emit radiation for imaging a subject, an arm rotatably connected at a proximal end thereof to a body section of the apparatus, such that it is supported by the body section and can slew relative to the body section about an upright axis, and to a distal end of which said component is connected, and a generator assembly arranged in the body section and including a generator arranged in the casing and electrically connected to said component, the apparatus being configured such that the generator assembly rotates with the arm, about said axis, wherein the generator assembly has a centre of mass which is radially offset from said axis in a second direction that is substantially opposite to said first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: MICRO-X LIMITEDInventors: Peter Rowland, Richard Byers, Anthony Skeats, Chin Eng Yeap
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Patent number: 11101096Abstract: A high dose output, through transmission and reflective target x-ray tube and methods of use includes, in general an x-ray tube for accelerating electrons under a high voltage potential having an evacuated high voltage housing, a hemispherical shaped through and reflective transmission target anode disposed in said housing, a cathode structure to deflect the electrons toward the hemispherical anode disposed in said housing, a filament located in the geometric center of the anode hemisphere disposed in said housing, a power supply connected to said cathode to provide accelerating voltage to the electrons.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Rad Source Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Phillip Kent Ausburn
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Patent number: 11083421Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of acquiring a medical image of an X-ray apparatus, including: acquiring an original radiation image of a target object and capturing condition information of the object; acquiring a scatter radiation image related to the original radiation image by inputting the original radiation image and the capturing condition information to a learning network model configured to estimate scatter radiation; and acquiring a scatter radiation-processed medical image from the original radiation image on the basis of the original radiation image and the scatter radiation image, wherein the learning network model configured to estimate scatter radiation is a learning network model taught using a plurality of scatter radiation images and a plurality of pieces of capturing condition information related to each of the plurality of scatter radiation images.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong Yong Song, Byeong Won Lee
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Patent number: 11064957Abstract: A dental imager includes an elongated handle with a rotatable head coupled to a distal end thereof and having a central platform with a plurality of arcuate scanning arms pivotally coupled thereto by a hinge. The arcuate scanning arms are of a shape and size for general deployment around a tooth and each include at least one scanner and a roller guide that comfortably rolls along the surface of the tooth or gums to bias the scanners a desired distance from the surface of the tooth, conducive for imaging thereof. In this respect, such a dental imager may be used in a process to scan and record the contours of an intraoral surface, the data of which may be used to create a digital three-dimensional surface impression printable by a 3D printer or the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Inventor: Marco Martin
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Patent number: 11058393Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are presented for automatic tuning, calibration, and verification of radiation therapy systems comprising control elements configured to control parameters of the radiation therapy systems based on images obtained using electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) included in the radiation therapy system.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignees: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC., VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Robert T. Wiggers, Daryl Leung, Reto W. Filiberti, Daniel Morf, Diana Kung, Stephen Gaudio
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Patent number: 11062934Abstract: A vacuum chuck for clamping workpieces, in particular wafers, and a measuring device and a method for checking workpieces by way of X-ray fluorescent radiation. The vacuum chuck has a clamping plate having a support surface, having at least one suction connection arranged on a base body for connecting to a negative-pressure device and for clamping the workpiece on the clamping plate by negative pressure received by the base body and having several suction grooves arranged in the clamping plate and are open towards the support surface. The support surface has concentric suction grooves having a suction opening to which a negative-pressure line is connected or which is connected to a work channel. Each suction groove having a separate negative pressure, which is separate to the adjacent suction groove, is selectively controlled by a control valve by a control for supplying the respective negative pressure in the respective suction groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Helmut Fischer GmbH Institut für Elektronik und MesstechnikInventors: Werner Volz, Paul Boos
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Patent number: 11054375Abstract: A spectrometer includes a crystal analyzer having a radius of curvature that defines a Rowland circle, a sample stage configured to support a sample such that the sample is offset from the Rowland circle, an x-ray source configured to emit unfocused x-rays toward the sample stage, and a position-sensitive detector that is tangent to the Rowland circle. A method performed via a spectrometer includes emitting, via an x-ray source, unfocused x-rays toward a sample that is mounted on a sample stage such that the sample is offset from the Rowland Circle, thereby causing the sample to emit x-rays that impinge on the crystal analyzer or transmit a portion of the unfocused x-rays to impinge on the crystal analyzer; scattering, via the crystal analyzer, the x-rays that impinge on the crystal analyzer; and detecting the scattered x-rays via a position-sensitive detector that is tangent to the Rowland circle.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONInventors: Gerald Todd Seidler, Oliver Hoidn, William Holden
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Patent number: 11051771Abstract: Intraoral three-dimensional (3D) tomosynthesis imaging systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are used to generate one or more two-dimensional (2D) x-ray projection images and to reconstruct, using a computing platform, the one or more 2D x-ray projection images into one or more 3D images of an object, such as teeth of a patient, which can then be displayed on a monitor in order to enhance diagnostic accuracy of dental disease. The intraoral 3D tomosynthesis imaging system can include a wall-mountable control unit connected to one end of an articulating arm, the other end of which is connected to an x-ray source, which is configured to generate x-ray radiation that is acquired by an x-ray detector held at a desired position by an x-ray detector holder that is removably coupled to a collimator at an emission region of the x-ray source.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Inventors: Jianping Lu, Otto Z. Zhou, Andrew Tucker, Jing Shan, Brian Gonzales
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Patent number: 11016552Abstract: To provide an image forming apparatus whose detection range of a person by using a pyroelectric sensor is adjustable without adjusting sensitivity of the pyroelectric sensor, an image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body; and a pyroelectric sensor that detects presence of a person based on light received from the periphery of the image forming apparatus main body, wherein the pyroelectric sensor is rotatably mounted to the image forming apparatus main body.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Koji Murata
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Patent number: 11000254Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically adjusting a position of a table configured to be positioned in a bore of a medical imaging device. The table may be adjusted according to one or more of a table elevation, an anatomical reference, and a start scan location. The table elevation, anatomical reference, and start scan location may be obtained from a selected imaging protocol.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Vincent Profio, Adam Pautsch, Darin Robert Okerlund, Scott McOlash, Vijay Subramanian
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Patent number: 10998161Abstract: A thickness of a bonding material (8) is varied in a radial direction orthogonal to a central axis (P) of the tubular anode member (6), the bonding material (8) being used for bonding a transmitting substrate (7) for supporting a target layer (9) and a tubular anode member (6) in a direction along the central axis (P). Thus, a region in which a circumferential tensile stress of the bonding material (8) is alleviated is formed in the direction along the central axis (P) to prevent a crack from developing in the bonding material (8).Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo Ohashi, Kazuyuki Ueda
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Patent number: 10987072Abstract: A sterile X-ray imaging C-arm cover is provided. The sterile X-ray imaging C-arm cover includes an enclosure configured to be secured to a medical table and to cover a portion of a C-arm, two sidewalls extending from a rotation end to a bottom end. The enclosure may include a front wall extending between the two sidewalls, enabling a medical professional to move around the enclosure to access a patient on the medical table. The enclosure may include a bottom wall coupled to the front wall and the two sidewalls, wherein the two sidewalls, the front wall, and the bottom wall form an envelope configured to receive the portion of the C-arm. The sterile X-ray imaging C-arm cover may include one or more securing mechanisms configured to secure the C-arm cover to the medical table, wherein the one or more securing mechanisms are positioned at the rotation end of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventor: Grigory Goldberg
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Patent number: 10980501Abstract: The X-ray phase imaging apparatus includes a position switching mechanism for switching a relative position of one or more gratings between a retreated position which is an outside of a detection range on a detection surface of an image signal detector and a detection positon which is an inside of the detection range on the detection surface of the image signal detector and a focal diameter changing unit configured to change a focal diameter of the X-ray source in conjunction with switching of the relative position of the one or more gratings.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Koichi Tanabe, Kenji Kimura, Toshinori Yoshimuta, Taro Shirai, Takahiro Doki, Satoshi Sano, Akira Horiba, Naoki Morimoto