Patents by Inventor Laurant Launay

Laurant Launay 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: 6510241
    Abstract: The process comprises a calibration of the apparatus, in which a virtual volume surrounding the object is generated and broken down into voxels, an acquisition of the set of numbered projected two-dimensional images, and a reconstruction of the three-dimensional image from the projected acquired two-dimensional images, and from an iterative algebraic image reconstruction algorithm. A first iteration of the algorithm is performed with a predetermined initial image resolution so as to obtain, at the end of this first iteration, first density values for the voxels of the volume, at least one part of the voxels of the virtual volume is subdivided into several sets, respectively, corresponding to different image resolutions that are multiples or sub-multiples of the initial resolution, and during each subsequent iteration of the algorithm, the algorithm is successively aplied to each of the sets of voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems SA
    Inventors: Regis Vaillant, Laurant Launay, Rene Romeas, Yves Lucien Marie Trousset
  • Patent number: 6424731
    Abstract: Method of controlling of a radiology device, of the type comprising a means of emission of an X-ray beam and a means of reception of the X-ray beam, after it has crossed a part of the object's body, in which a three-dimensional image of a part of the object's body is reconstructed from a series of two-dimensional films, two-dimensional views of the three-dimensional image are produced at different angles of incidence, the angle of incidence allowing the best visualization of the part of the object's body are selected, the angles of incidence are stored in memory, and the angles of incidence are supplied to the radiology device for its positioning with a view to an intervention or procedure on the part of the object's body under fluoroscopy allowing a visualization in real time of two-dimensional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems S.A.
    Inventors: Laurant Launay, Yves Lucien Marie Trousset, Régis Vaillant, Réne Romeas
  • Patent number: 6314313
    Abstract: Device and process for simulating a patient's body for the testing of a three-dimensional vascular X-ray apparatus of the type comprising a means for emitting an X-ray beam, a means for receiving the X-ray beam, a means for displaying the images obtained, and a means for controlling the injection of opacifying liquid into the patient's vessels. The simulation device comprises a stationary part for simulating the patient's bones and soft tissues and a moving part for simulating the patient's opacified blood vessels, so as to be able to perform at least one acquisition of an image of the stationary part alone and at least one acquisition of an image of the stationary part and the moving part, and to obtain an image of the moving part by means of image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Romeas, Laurant Launay, Yves Lucien Marie Trousset, Regis Vaillant
  • Patent number: 6224257
    Abstract: Device for simulating a patient's body for the testing of a vascular X-ray apparatus of the type comprising a means for emitting an X-ray beam, and a means for receiving the X-ray beam after it has passed through a part of the patient's body, the X-ray beam being centered on an axis. The device comprises at least one metal wire disposed at least partially transversely relative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventors: Laurant Launay, Rene Romeas, Yves Lucien Marie Trousset, Regis Vaillant