Patents by Inventor Kajetan R. Berlinger

Kajetan R. Berlinger 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).

  • Fiducial-less tracking of a volume of interest
    Patent number: 8831706
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fiducial-less tracking of a volume of interest (VOI) have been presented. In some embodiments, a pair of intra-operative images of a portion of a patient is generated during treatment of a target region in the patient to show a bony structure of the patient. The bony structure shown is movable responsive to respiration of the patient. Then the pair of intra-operative images is compared with a set of digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) pairs, generated from volumes of four-dimensional (4D) diagnostic imaging data, to determine a location of the movable bony structure that corresponds to a particular volume of the 4D diagnostic imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Accuray Incorporated
    Inventors: Dongshan Fu, Kajetan R. Berlinger
  • Fiducial-less tracking of a volume of interest
    Publication number: 20080109013
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fiducial-less tracking of a volume of interest (VOI) have been presented. In some embodiments, a pair of intra-operative images of a portion of a patient is generated during treatment of a target region in the patient to show a bony structure of the patient. The bony structure shown is movable responsive to respiration of the patient. Then the pair of intra-operative images is compared with a set of digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) pairs, generated from volumes of four-dimensional (4D) diagnostic imaging data, to determine a location of the movable bony structure that corresponds to a particular volume of the 4D diagnostic imaging data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Dongshan Fu, Kajetan R. Berlinger