Patents by Inventor Alain Bouliou

Alain Bouliou 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).

  • Patent number: 5175773
    Abstract: In order to reconstruct an angiographic arborescence, two images are acquired according to orientations substantially perpendicular to each other of an arborescence (IVA,CX) to be reconstructed. By a follow-up operation of the segments, the coordinates of the arborescence segments are reconstructed. Indeterminations resulting from the too small number of acquisitions effected are removed by emitting hypotheses (AV, IV) on forms deductible from the recorded acquisitions and by verifying those hypotheses with respect to a model. The model has the particularity of being structural, that is to say substantially descriptive. In this structural model, each arborescence segment is characterized by a number, by a direction (49-54), and by the numbers, direction and number of segments preceding or following it. By operating in this way, it has been proved that angiographic images may be reconstituted in a more rapid and simple way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric CGR S.A.
    Inventors: Mireille Garreau, Alain Bouliou, Rene Collorec, Jean-Louis Coatrieux