Patents by Inventor Ernstpeter Ruehrnschopf

Ernstpeter Ruehrnschopf 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: 7462832
    Abstract: A device and a method for computer tomography are described, in which an uncorrected volume image and a correction volume image are overlaid by the user after selection of a weighting function. This enables manual correction to be undertaken even after the correction of interference effects, such as x-ray scattering or beam hardening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ernstpeter Ruehrnschopf
  • Publication number: 20060284099
    Abstract: A device and a method for computer tomography are described, in which an uncorrected volume image and a correction volume image are overlaid by the user after selection of a weighting function. This enables manual correction to be undertaken even after the correction of interference effects, such as x-ray scattering or beam hardening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventor: Ernstpeter Ruehrnschopf
  • Patent number: 5666391
    Abstract: An x-ray examination apparatus with a detector array having a number of detector elements includes a data correction computer in which the subject-scattered radiation can be numerically determined and corrected. The forward scatter intensity is determined by multiplication of the measured intensities, windowed with a window function, with the natural logarithm of the intensity normalized with the unattenuated primary intensity. The subject-scattered radiation can then be calculated and corrected through filtering of the forward scatter intensity with a convolution kernel and a suitable scaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Ohnesorge, Ernstpeter Ruehrnschopf, Klaus Klingenbeck-Regn
  • Patent number: 5377249
    Abstract: A computer tomography apparatus has an anode in the form of a partial ring along which a focus is electronically moved to generate a scan beam from different directions, and a partial ring detector which generates a number of data sets from the attenuated radiation at the different directions, includes a computer wherein the data sets are weighted independently of the measured values so that image reconstruction can be undertaken with a standard computer tomography method, such as convolution and back-projection. The weighting is selected so that the boundaries of regions having constant values represent smooth curves in the sinogram. The image can thereby be reconstructed without complementary interpolation, which is normally required in computer tomography systems having a partial ring x-ray source and detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Wiesent, Ernstpeter Ruehrnschopf, Johannes Ebersberger