Patents by Inventor Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg
Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg 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: 20160166234Abstract: An ultrasound scan probe and support mechanism are provided for use in a multi-modality mammography imaging system, such as a combined tomosynthesis and ultrasound imaging system. In one embodiment, the ultrasound components may be positioned and configured so as not to interfere with the tomosynthesis imaging operation, such as to remain out of the X-ray beam path. Further, the ultrasound probe and associated components may be configured to as to move and scan the breast tissue under compression, such as under the compression provided by one or more paddles used in the tomosynthesis imaging operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Zhipeng Zhang, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Weston Blaine Griffin, Ying Mao
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Publication number: 20160166217Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the manufacture and use of a non-rigid breast compression paddle, such as a compression paddle having a mesh material forming the primary interface with patient tissue. In certain implementations, an automatic feedback driven approach may be used in conjunction with such a compression paddle for compressing breast tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Zhipeng Zhang, Weston Blaine Griffin, Ying Mao
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Patent number: 9101895Abstract: The present invention relates to functionally closed systems for mixing and delivering microbubble pharmaceuticals. Described is a device comprising a rigid outer layer and a flexible bladder wherein mixing occurs using external mixing sources. Also included is a system for dispensing the pharmaceuticals to its end use after mixing. Methods for mixing and dispensing microbubble pharmaceuticals are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hae Won Lim, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, James Edward Rothman
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Patent number: 8983571Abstract: Methods for measuring liver fat mass are provided. One method includes acquiring dual-energy two-dimensional (2D) scan information from a dual-energy X-ray scan of a body and generating a dual-energy X-ray image of the body using the 2D scan information. The method further includes identifying a region of interest using the dual-energy X-ray image and determining a subcutaneous fat mass for each of a plurality of sections of the region of interest. The method also includes determining a liver fat mass for the region of interest based on the determined subcutaneous fat mass for each of the plurality of sections.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Xin Wang, Tzu-Jen Kao, Megan Pearl Rothney
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Publication number: 20140371570Abstract: Methods for measuring liver fat mass are provided. One method includes acquiring dual-energy two-dimensional (2D) scan information from a dual-energy X-ray scan of a body and generating a dual-energy X-ray image of the body using the 2D scan information. The method further includes identifying a region of interest using the dual-energy X-ray image and determining a subcutaneous fat mass for each of a plurality of sections of the region of interest. The method also includes determining a liver fat mass for the region of interest based on the determined subcutaneous fat mass for each of the plurality of sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Xin Wang, Tzu-Jen Kao, Megan Pearl Rothney
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Patent number: 8715187Abstract: A system for providing non-invasive ultrasound based treatment to a region of interest is provided. The system comprises an imaging unit for imaging one or more tissue types in the region of interest, an image processing unit that is configured to identify the one or more tissue types in the region of interest, an ultrasound transducer that is configured to focus an ultrasound beam to ablate at least a portion of the identified tissues, and a controller unit that controls a delivery of the ultrasound beam to the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Ying Fan, Hae Won Lim, Gokul Swamy, Navneeth Subramanian, Nitya Subramaniam
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Patent number: 8326010Abstract: The invention provides a method for a multi-echo acquisition technique capable of obtaining separate water only and fat only images in anatomies having large time-varying phase disturbances. This multi-echo technique is also useful in anatomies where magnetic field inhomogeneity is significant. Also provided is a system, which is capable of producing a reconstructed complex water image whose phase component maintains the temperature dependent phase information. Similarly, the reconstructed fat image maintains the phase information pertaining to the time-varying phase disturbances.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lorne Wyatt Hofstetter, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Desmond Teck Beng Yeo
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Publication number: 20120263009Abstract: The present invention relates to functionally closed systems for mixing and delivering microbubble pharmaceuticals. Described is a device comprising a rigid outer layer and a flexible bladder wherein mixing occurs using external mixing sources. Also included is a system for dispensing the pharmaceuticals to its end use after mixing. Methods for mixing and dispensing microbubble pharmaceuticals are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Hae Won Lim, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, James Edward Rothman
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Publication number: 20120157842Abstract: A system for providing non-invasive ultrasound based treatment to a region of interest is provided. The system comprises an imaging unit for imaging one or more tissue types in the region of interest, an image processing unit that is configured to identify the one or more tissue types in the region of interest, an ultrasound transducer that is configured to focus an ultrasound beam to ablate at least a portion of the identified tissues, and a controller unit that controls a delivery of the ultrasound beam to the region of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Ying Fan, Hae Won Lim, Gokul Swamy, Navneeth Subramanian, Nitya Subramaniam
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Publication number: 20110268332Abstract: The invention provides a method for a multi-echo acquisition technique capable of obtaining separate water only and fat only images in anatomies having large time-varying phase disturbances. This multi-echo technique is also useful in anatomies where magnetic field inhomogeneity is significant. Also provided is a system, which is capable of producing a reconstructed complex water image whose phase component maintains the temperature dependent phase information. Similarly, the reconstructed fat image maintains the phase information pertaining to the time-varying phase disturbances.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2010Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Lorne Wyatt Hofstetter, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Desmond Teck Beng Yeo
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Patent number: 7978886Abstract: A technique is provided for performing diagnosis and/or analysis of a volumetric image generated via anatomy based reconstruction. The technique includes generating a three-dimensional image by reconstructing a plurality of residual projection images from which a contribution of one or more structures of interest has been removed. The technique also includes evaluating the three-dimensional image and/or the plurality of residual projection images to generate a diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Frederick Wilson Wheeler, Mark Lewis Grabb, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg
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Publication number: 20110144545Abstract: A method for treating a region of interest using ultrasound is provided. The method comprises cavitating fat cells in the region of interest using one or more cavitating harmonics, and thermally treating connective tissues in the region of interest using one or more thermal harmonics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ying Fan, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Dhiraj Arora
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Publication number: 20110144490Abstract: In one embodiment, an ultrasound device disposed in a housing is provided. The ultrasound device comprises a first transducer for imaging a region of interest, and a second transducer that generates one or more ultrasound frequencies for cavitating fat cells in the region of interest, and one or more frequencies for thermally treating connective tissues in the region of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Ying Fan
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Publication number: 20100305427Abstract: A planar sensor array for use in a surgical navigation system comprising at least one substrate and at two layers of a plurality of planar sensor coils formed on or within the at least one insulating substrate. The planar sensor array may be an electromagnetic planar transmitter coil array or an electromagnetic planar receiver coil array that includes at two layers of a plurality of planar electromagnetic transmitter or receiver spiral-shaped coils formed on or within the at least one substrate. The surgical navigation system includes the use of at least one magnetoresistance reference sensor attached to a fixed object; at least one magnetoresistance sensor attached to an object being tracked; and a planar sensor coil array communicating with the at least one magnetoresistance reference sensor and the at least one magnetoresistance sensor to determine the position and orientation of the object being tracked.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Hullinger Huber, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Vernon Thomas Jensen
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Publication number: 20100286518Abstract: An ultrasound imaging and therapy system is provided that includes an ultrasound probe and a diagnostic module to control the probe to obtain diagnostic ultrasound signals from a region of interest (ROI) of the patient. The ROI includes adipose tissue and the diagnostic module generates a diagnostic image of the ROI based on the ultrasound signals obtained. The system also includes a display to display the image of the ROI and a user interface to accept user inputs to designate a treatment space within the ROI that corresponds to the adipose tissue. The display displays the treatment space on the image. The system also includes a therapy module to control the probe to deliver, during a therapy session, a therapy to a treatment location based on a therapy parameter. The treatment location is within the treatment space defined by the user inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2009Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Warren Lee, Dhiraj Arora, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Ying Fan, Chistopher Robert Hazard, Lowell Scott Smith, Kai Erik Thomenius
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Publication number: 20100286519Abstract: An ultrasound imaging and therapy system that includes an ultrasound probe and an ultrasound diagnostic module to control the probe to obtain diagnostic ultrasound signals from a region of interest (ROI). The ROI includes adipose tissue and non-adipose tissue. The diagnostic module analyzes the diagnostic ultrasound signals and automatically differentiates adipose tissue from non-adipose tissue. The system also includes an ultrasound therapy module to control the probe to deliver, during a therapy session, a therapy at a treatment location based on a therapy parameter to the adipose tissue differentiated by the ultrasound diagnostic module. A method for delivering therapy to a region of interest (ROI) in a patient is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2009Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: WARREN LEE, DHIRAJ ARORA, CYNTHIA ELIZABETH LANDBERG DAVIS, YING FAN, CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HAZARD, KENNETH WAYNE RIGBY, LOWELL SCOTT SMITH, KAI ERIK THOMENIUS
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Patent number: 7742796Abstract: A method for imaging a breast is provided. The method includes positioning a breast within a breast holder including a flexible membrane and creating at least a partial vacuum within the flexible membrane. A method of upgrading a mammography system and various configurations of breast holders are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Abdulrahman Abdallah Al-khalidy, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg, Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Reinhold Franz Wirth
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Patent number: 7656994Abstract: A tomosynthesis system for forming a three dimensional image of an object is provided. The system includes an X-ray source adapted to irradiate the object with a beam of X-rays from a plurality of positions in a sector, an X-ray detector positioned relative to the X-ray source to detect X-rays transmitted through the object and a processor which is adapted to generate a three dimensional image of the object based on X-rays detected by the detector. The detector is adapted to move relative to the object and/or the X-ray source is adapted to irradiate the object with the beam of X-rays such that the beam of X-rays follows in a non arc shaped path and/or a center of the beam of X-rays impinges substantially on the same location on the detector from different X-ray source positions in the sector.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Bernard Erich Hermann Claus, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg, Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller, Yann Delmas, Reinhold Franz Wirth, James George Morrow
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Patent number: 7653263Abstract: A technique is provided for comparative image analysis and/or change detection using computer assisted detection and/or diagnosis (CAD) algorithms. The technique includes registering two or more images, comparing the images with one another to generate a change map, and detecting anomalies in the images based on the change map.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Frederick Wilson Wheeler, Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, John Patrick Kaufhold, Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Mark Lewis Grabb, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg
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Publication number: 20090135995Abstract: A tomosynthesis system for forming a three dimensional image of an object is provided. The system includes an X-ray source adapted to irradiate the object with a beam of X-rays from a plurality of positions in a sector, an X-ray detector positioned relative to the X-ray source to detect X-rays transmitted through the object and a processor which is adapted to generate a three dimensional image of the object based on X-rays detected by the detector. The detector is adapted to move relative to the object and/or the X-ray source is adapted to irradiate the object with the beam of X-rays such that the beam of X-rays follows in a non arc shaped path and/or a center of the beam of X-rays impinges substantially on the same location on the detector from different X-ray source positions in the sector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg, Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller, Yann Delmas, Reinhold Franz Wirth, James George Morrow