Patents by Inventor Martin Osmund Leach

Martin Osmund Leach 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: 8107697
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for generating data for a two-dimensional image which identifies different classes of property of an imaged subject, this being done by separately rendering volumetric data classified into those different classes and, from all of those separate renderings, choosing one datum for use in the two-dimensional image as an image pixel. This being repeatable for each datum to be used in the two-dimensional image—thereby, for example, to selectively build-up the data for whole of the two-dimensional image as a mixture/combination of different classes of data. The data for the two-dimensional image may be color coded for visually distinguishing data of different classes. Thus when applied to the image enhancement of tissues subjected to contrast agent uptake in patients kinetic information may be incorporated into the volume renderings to enable tissues of different enhancement and kinetic characteristics to be identified as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignees: The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
    Inventors: Michael Khazen, Martin Osmund Leach
  • Publication number: 20090046914
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for generating data for a two-dimensional image which identifies different classes of property of an imaged subject, this being done by separately rendering volumetric data classified into those different classes and, from all of those separate renderings, choosing one datum for use in the two-dimensional image as an image pixel. This being repeatable for each datum to be used in the two-dimensional image—thereby, for example, to selectively build-up the data for whole of the two-dimensional image as a mixture/combination of different classes of data. The data for the two-dimensional image may be colour coded for visually distinguishing data of different classes. Thus when applied to the image enhancement of tissues subjected to contrast agent uptake in patients kinetic information may be incorporated into the volume renderings to enable tissues of different enhancement and kinetic characteristics to be identified as such.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: THE INSITITUE OF CANCER RESEARCH: ROYAL CANCER HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Michael Khazen, Martin Osmund Leach
  • Patent number: 7235972
    Abstract: An object is examined by detecting properties of the object at different times within a space formed by spatial frequencies. This is done such that temporally consecutive recordings are made in overlapping regions of the spatial frequency space and also in regions of the spatial frequency space that differ from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: N. Joni Shah, Maxim Zaitsev, Martin Osmund Leach, David John Collins, James D'Arcy