Patents by Inventor Hartwig Newiger

Hartwig Newiger 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: 8195417
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for recording measured data from a patient by taking movements into account by use of a medical device designed both for recording motion-related measured data and for recording nuclear medicine measured data. The method may include recording nuclear medicine measured data by use of the medical device, simultaneously recording motion-related measured data by use of the medical device, determining at least one motion information item relating to at least one movement of the patient and/or at least one movement inside the body of the patient during the ongoing measured data recording by evaluating at least a portion of the previously recorded motion-related measured data, and carrying out motion correction for at least a portion of the nuclear medicine measured data by use of the computational device in parallel with recording the measured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Ralf Ladebeck, Diana Martin, Hartwig Newiger, Josef Pfeuffer, Michael Szimtenings, Harald Werthner
  • Patent number: 8180128
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for recording measured data of a patient while taking account of movement operations by way of a medical device that is designed both for recording movement-related measured data, in particular measured data of high temporal resolution and/or measured data that can be interpolated with regard to movement operations, with the aid of an imaging method and/or by means of at least one sensor element, and also for recording nuclear medicine measured data, in particular of lower temporal resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Ralf Ladebeck, Diana Martin, Hartwig Newiger, Josef Pfeuffer, Michael Szimtenings, Harald Werthner
  • Publication number: 20100067765
    Abstract: According to a preferred embodiment, the invention provides a method for extracting internal organ motion from positron emission tomography (PET) coincidence data, the method comprising the following steps: generating a data stream of PET coincidence data using the list mode capability of a PET scanner; dividing the data stream into time frames of a given length; computing a histogram A(i, t) of an axial coincidence distribution for a set of time frames; computing the axial center of mass z(t) for each of the time frames in the set of time frames based on the histogram A(i, t); transforming z(t) into the frequency domain; determining either the frequency contribution caused by respiratory motion, given by fresp, or the frequency contribution caused by heart contractions, given by fcard and ?f, identified in the frequency spectrum |Z(f)|; and carrying out further processing of Z(f) leading to curves zresp(t) and zcard(t) with which a gating sequence is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicants: Universltat Munster, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Buther, Klaus Schafers, William F. Jones, Bernard Bendriem, Hartwig Newiger
  • Publication number: 20090041318
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for recording measured data of a patient while taking account of movement operations by way of a medical device that is designed both for recording movement-related measured data, in particular measured data of high temporal resolution and/or measured data that can be interpolated with regard to movement operations, with the aid of an imaging method and/or by means of at least one sensor element, and also for recording nuclear medicine measured data, in particular of lower temporal resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Ralf Ladebeck, Diana Martin, Hartwig Newiger, Josef Pfeuffer, Michael Szimtenings, Harald Werthner
  • Publication number: 20090037130
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for recording measured data from a patient by taking movements into account by use of a medical device designed both for recording motion-related measured data, in particular measured data with a high temporal resolution and/or measured data which can be interpolated with regard to movements, using an imaging method and/or by use of at least one sensor element and for recording nuclear medicine measured data, in particular with a relatively low temporal resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Ralf Ladebeck, Diana Martin, Hartwig Newiger, Josef Pfeuffer, Michael Szimtenings, Harald Werthner