Patents by Inventor Mitchell Surowiec

Mitchell Surowiec 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).

  • Dose reduction via dynamic collimation adjustment for targeted field of view and/or digital tilt CT
    Patent number: 9042514
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques are described for dynamically adjusting, in a fan-angle direction, attenuation of radiation during an examination of an object such that portions of the object that are not represented in resulting (tilted/targeted) images of the object are exposed to less radiation than portions of the object that are represented in resulting (tilted/targeted) images of the object. As a rotating gantry is rotated, blades of a pre-object collimator are dynamically repositioned to selectively attenuate emitted radiation. A collimator adjustment component may be configured to determine how to reposition the blades based at least in part upon at least one of a desired tilt of the resulting (tilted) image(s), a translational position of the object, and a gantry rotation angle, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Analogic Corporation
    Inventors: Doug Abraham, Lane Howitt, Mitchell Surowiec, Carl DeVincent, David Rozas
  • DOSE REDUCTION VIA DYNAMIC COLLIMATION ADJUSTMENT FOR TARGETED FIELD OF VIEW AND/OR DIGITAL TILT CT
    Publication number: 20130308747
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques are described for dynamically adjusting, in a fan-angle direction, attenuation of radiation during an examination of an object such that portions of the object that are not represented in resulting (tilted/targeted) images of the object are exposed to less radiation than portions of the object that are represented in resulting (tilted/targeted) images of the object. As a rotating gantry is rotated, blades of a pre-object collimator are dynamically repositioned to selectively attenuate emitted radiation. A collimator adjustment component may be configured to determine how to reposition the blades based at least in part upon at least one of a desired tilt of the resulting (tilted) image(s), a translational position of the object, and a gantry rotation angle, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Analogic Corporation
    Inventors: Doug Abraham, Lane Howitt, Mitchell Surowiec, Carl DeVincent, David Rozas