Patents by Inventor CHRISTOPH LUCKNER

CHRISTOPH LUCKNER 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: 11839500
    Abstract: A method is for acquiring an X-ray image of a region of interest of an examinee using an X-ray system and a displaceable patient table for positioning the examinee. In an embodiment, the method includes: selecting the region of interest; acquiring, section-by-section, successive image sections in relation to the region of interest, the acquiring, for each successive image section of the successive image sections, including moving the X-ray source and the X-ray detector along a common acquisition direction, moving the patient table counter to the common acquisition direction, determining a respective essentially strip-shaped detection area within the detection zone for a respective image section of the successive image sections, and detecting the respective image section by way of the determined detection area and the X-ray source, to acquire the respective image section; and generating a composite X-ray image of the region of interest from the respective successive image sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Weber, Christoph Luckner, Magdalena Herbst, Ludwig Ritschl, Frank Boettcher
  • Patent number: 11666292
    Abstract: A method is for making an X-ray recording of an examination region of an examination object with an X-ray system including an X-ray source arranged on an emitter displacement unit and an X-ray detector including a detection area, arranged on a detector displacement unit. The method includes selecting the examination region and portion-wise recording successive recording portions in relation to the examination region. The portion-wise recording includes moving the X-ray source and the X-ray detector, determining a strip-shaped detection region within the detection area, by expanding an extent of the X-ray recording compared with a further different X-ray recording, and acquiring and recording each respective successive recording portion, of the successive recording portions, using the determined detection region and the X-ray source. Finally, the method includes generating an assembled X-ray recording of the examination region from the successive recording portions recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Magdalena Herbst, Ludwig Ritschl, Marc Cottiati, Christoph Luckner, Qi Hu, Marcel Beister, Fabian Wloka
  • Publication number: 20220031260
    Abstract: A method is for acquiring an X-ray image of a region of interest of an examinee using an X-ray system and a displaceable patient table for positioning the examinee. In an embodiment, the method includes: selecting the region of interest; acquiring, section-by-section, successive image sections in relation to the region of interest, the acquiring, for each successive image section of the successive image sections, including moving the X-ray source and the X-ray detector along a common acquisition direction, moving the patient table counter to the common acquisition direction, determining a respective essentially strip-shaped detection area within the detection zone for a respective image section of the successive image sections, and detecting the respective image section by way of the determined detection area and the X-ray source, to acquire the respective image section; and generating a composite X-ray image of the region of interest from the respective successive image sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas WEBER, Christoph LUCKNER, Magdalena HERBST, Ludwig RITSCHL, Frank BOETTCHER
  • Publication number: 20210298699
    Abstract: A method is for making an X-ray recording of an examination region of an examination object with an X-ray system including an X-ray source arranged on an emitter displacement unit and an X-ray detector including a detection area, arranged on a detector displacement unit. The method includes selecting the examination region and portion-wise recording successive recording portions in relation to the examination region. The portion-wise recording includes moving the X-ray source and the X-ray detector, determining a strip-shaped detection region within the detection area, by expanding an extent of the X-ray recording compared with a further different X-ray recording, and acquiring and recording each respective successive recording portion, of the successive recording portions, using the determined detection region and the X-ray source. Finally, the method includes generating an assembled X-ray recording of the examination region from the successive recording portions recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Magdalena HERBST, Ludwig RITSCHL, Marc COTTIATI, Christoph LUCKNER, Qi HU, Marcel BEISTER, Fabian WLOKA
  • Patent number: 10660581
    Abstract: A method is for operating an X-ray device. In an embodiment, the method includes acquiring a sequence of images of a patient; moving an acquisition arrangement including at least one X-ray tube assembly, during the acquiring of the sequence of images, along the patient in a scanning direction; evaluating at least two different images, showing at least one common feature of the patient, to determine depth information for the at least one common feature; and actuating a collimator aperture of a collimator of the X-ray tube assembly, as a function of position information describing a position of the acquisition arrangement in the scanning direction, to change an aperture angle of a radiation field generated by the X-ray tube assembly in the scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Fieselmann, Ludwig Ritschl, Julia Wicklein, Magdalena Herbst, Christoph Luckner
  • Patent number: 10445904
    Abstract: A method for the automatic generation of synthetic projections of an examination object from at least one three-dimensional data set acquired by way of a medical imaging system. The three-dimensional data set is used as a basis for determining position information relating to the arrangement of structures of the examination object and at least one synthetic projection based on the position information. We also describe a projection-image-ascertaining facility for the automatic generation of synthetic projections and a computer program product for executing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Anna Jerebko, Andreas Fieselmann, Christoph Luckner
  • Publication number: 20180061090
    Abstract: A method for the automatic generation of synthetic projections of an examination object from at least one three-dimensional data set acquired by way of a medical imaging system. The three-dimensional data set is used as a basis for determining position information relating to the arrangement of structures of the examination object and at least one synthetic projection based on the position information. We also describe a projection-image-ascertaining facility for the automatic generation of synthetic projections and a computer program product for executing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: ANNA JEREBKO, ANDREAS FIESELMANN, CHRISTOPH LUCKNER