Patents by Inventor Naor Wainer
Naor Wainer 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).
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Publication number: 20100220833Abstract: A radiation detector (24) includes a two-dimensional array of upper scintillators (30?) which is disposed facing an x-ray source (14) to convert lower energy radiation events into visible light and transmit higher energy radiation. A two-dimensional array of lower scintillators (30B) is disposed adjacent the upper scintillators (30?) distally from the x-ray source (14) to convert the transmitted higher energy radiation into visible light. Upper and lower photodetectors (38?, 30B) are optically coupled to the respective upper and lower scintillators (30?,30B) at an inner side (60) of the scintillators (30?,30B). An optical element (100) is optically coupled with the upper scintillators (30?) to collect and channel the light from the upper scintillators (30?) into corresponding upper photodetectors (38?).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N. V.Inventors: Simha Levene, Olga Shapiro, Ami Altman, Naor Wainer
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Publication number: 20080210877Abstract: A radiation detector (24) includes a two-dimensional array of upper scintillators (30?) which is disposed facing an x-ray source (14) to convert lower energy radiation into visible light and transmit higher energy radiation. A two-dimensional array of lower scintillators (30B) is disposed adjacent the upper scintillators (30?) distally from the x-ray source (14) to convert the transmitted higher energy radiation into visible light. Respective active areas (94, 96) of each upper and lower photodetector arrays (38?, 38B) are optically coupled to the respective upper and lower scintillators (30?, 30B) at an inner side (60) of the scintillators (30?, 30B) which inner side (60) is generally perpendicular to an axial direction (Z).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2006Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N. V.Inventors: Ami Altman, Olga Shapiro, Simha Levene, Naor Wainer
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Patent number: 7194062Abstract: A method of mounting a CT imager on a gantry: determining a center of rotation of a rotor of the gantry; siting a plurality of mounting elements at predetermined positions with respect to the center of rotation; and attaching the mounting elements to the rotor while keeping the mounting elements at the predetermined positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 7164143Abstract: A radiation source comprising: a source of radiation; a plate having an aperture formed therein, said aperture facing the source of radiation; and means for moving the source when no radiation is desired on the side of the plate away from the source.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventor: Naor Wainer
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Publication number: 20060214108Abstract: A nuclear medicine camera having an X-ray imaging capability. The camera comprises at least one gamma camera mounted on a gantry and an X-ray CT imager mounted on the same gantry. The at least one gamma camera and the X-ray imager are capable of simultaneously rotating about a common axis at different rotation rates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Applicant: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 7110587Abstract: A method of registering a plurality of functional images includes providing a plurality of functional images, providing a plurality of structural images, each one of which having a known positional relationship to at least one of said plurality of functional images, and finding a first mapping transformation between pairs of functional images based on the first mapping transformation and the positional transformation.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1995Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: GE Medical Systems Israel Ltd.Inventors: Alex Natanzon, Naor Wainer, Gideon Berlad, Shoulamit Cohen Shwartz
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Patent number: 7087903Abstract: A nuclear medicine camera having an X-ray imaging capability, comprising: a gantry having a stationary portion and at least one rotating portion; at least one gamma camera mounted on a said at least one rotating portion and capable of being rotated together at a common first rotation rate about an axis, said at least one gamma camera being capable of acquiring nuclear imaging data for reconstructing a tomographic nuclear image; and an X-ray CT imager having an X-ray source mounted on said at least one rotating portion and being capable of acquiring X-ray imaging data for reconstructing an X-ray image; said X-ray CT imager being mounted closer to said stationary portion than said at least one gamma camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Publication number: 20060050839Abstract: A method of mounting a CT imager on a gantry: determining a center of rotation of a rotor of the gantry; siting a plurality of mounting elements at predetermined positions with respect to the center of rotation; and attaching the mounting elements to the rotor while keeping the mounting elements at the predetermined positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 7009183Abstract: A gamma camera comprising: a plurality of pixelated detectors wherein each pixelated detector provides a detector signal responsive to photons that are incident on it; a plurality of processing circuits that receive said detector signals and provide processed signals responsive to said detector signals; and at least one printed circuit board on which said processing circuits are mounted and having conductors thereon that carry said detector signals to said processing circuits; wherein said processing circuits are mounted on said printed circuit board at locations remote from said detectors; and wherein said plurality of pixelated detectors form a two-dimensional planar array.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Aharon Amrami, Amir Pansky
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Publication number: 20050161606Abstract: A method of producing a nuclear medicine image of a subject, comprising: acquiring nuclear imaging data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image, said nuclear image data being acquired by a gamma camera head rotating about the subject; acquiring X-ray imaging data suitable to produce an X-ray tomographic image for attenuation correction of the gamma camera image, said X-ray imaging data being acquired by detectors irradiated by an X-ray source rotating around the subject; reducing the sensitivity of gamma camera head while the X-rays are produced; and reconstructing an attenuation corrected nuclear medicine image utilizing the nuclear imaging data and X-ray imaging data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2005Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Publication number: 20050127301Abstract: A nuclear medicine camera having an X-ray imaging capability, comprising: a gantry having a stationary portion and at least one rotating portion; at least one gamma camera mounted on a said at least one rotating portion and capable of being rotated together at a common first rotation rate about an axis, said at least one gamma camera being capable of acquiring nuclear imaging data for reconstructing a tomographic nuclear image; and an X-ray CT imager having an X-ray source mounted on said at least one rotating portion and being capable of acquiring X-ray imaging data for reconstructing an X-ray image; said X-ray CT imager being mounted closer to said stationary portion than said at least one gamma camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2005Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicant: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 6878941Abstract: Apparatus for producing attenuation corrected nuclear medicine images of patients, comprising: at least one gamma camera head that acquires nuclear image data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image at a first controllable rotation rate about an axis; at least one X-ray CT imager that acquires X-ray data suitable to produce an attenuation image for correction of the nuclear tomographic image at a second controllable rotation rate about the axis; and a controller that controls the data acquisition and first and second rotation rates to selectively provide at least one of the following modes of operation: (i) a movement gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each view of the X-ray acquisition is associated with one of a plurality of respiration gated time periods; (ii) a cardiac gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each viewType: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Publication number: 20050006586Abstract: Apparatus for producing attenuation corrected nuclear medicine images of patients, comprising: at least one gamma camera head that acquires nuclear image data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image at a first controllable rotation rate about an axis; at least one X-ray CT imager that acquires X-ray data suitable to produce an attenuation image for correction of the nuclear tomographic image at a second controllable rotation rate about the axis; and a controller that controls the data acquisition and first and second rotation rates to selectively provide at least one of the following modes of operation: (i) a movement gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each view of the X-ray acquisition is associated with one of a plurality of respiration gated time periods; (ii) a cardiac gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each view ofType: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Applicant: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 6841782Abstract: A method of producing a nuclear medicine image of a subject comprising the steps of acquiring nuclear image data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image, the data being acquired by at least one gamma camera head (12, 14) rotating about the subject at an average first rate, acquiring x-ray imaging data suitable to produce an x-ray tomographic image for attenuation correction of the gamma camera image, the data being acquired by an array of detectors (20) irradiated by an x-ray source (18) rotating around the subject at an average second rate which is within a factor of 10 of the first rate, and reconstructing an attenuation corrected nuclear medicine image utilizing the nuclear imaging data and x-ray imaging data.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1999Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Adi Balan, Yigal Shrem, Albert Lonn, Benny Hajaj, Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Gideon Berlad, Leonid Yakubovsky
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Patent number: 6803580Abstract: A nuclear imaging system comprising: first and second radiation detectors, each comprising an imaging surface facing each other and each having an extent; an radiation source, situated outside a space defined by a largest parallelepiped formed on two sides by said first and second detectors, which irradiates the second detector; and an axis about which the first and second detectors and the radiation source rotate together; wherein the field of view of the radiation source, defined by lines connecting the external source and the edges of the second detector, encompass the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2003Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventor: Naor Wainer
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Patent number: 6794653Abstract: A nuclear imaging system for imaging of the breast including at least one gamma camera, having a radiation detecting surface, which detects gamma radiation and provides data signals responsive to radiation from the breast and a collimator, positioned over the reception surface. The system includes a gantry on which the radiation detector is mounted and which provides rotational movement of the radiation detection surface around the axis of the breast and a computer which receives and analyzes the data signals and constructs an image of radiation sources therefrom. The radiation detection surface of the at least one gamma camera is tilted with respect to the axis during rotation of the at least one gamma camera about the axis, such that it is partially facing the chest of a study subject.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz
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Publication number: 20040178348Abstract: A gamma camera comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Aharon Amrami, Amir Pansky
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Patent number: 6740885Abstract: A multilayer pixelated detector comprising a plurality of strip array detectors each said strip array detector including a rectangular semiconductor crystal having first and second relatively large parallel planar face surfaces having edges and a thickness; a cathode electrode covering substantially all of said first face surface; and an anode electrode comprising a plurality of anode strip pixels, wherein an anode strip pixel comprises a rectangular electrode having a length and a width. A long dimension of each of said anode strip pixels is parallel to a same edge of said second face surface, the pixelated detectors have contiguous face surfaces and wherein edges of contiguous face surfaces are aligned and wherein anode strip pixels of all pixelated detectors are parallel and electrodes on contiguous surfaces of pixelated detectors are identical and overlap substantially completely.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2003Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventors: Naor Wainer, Yaron Hefetz, Aharon Amrami, Amir Pansky
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Patent number: 6723988Abstract: A radiation camera system, comprising: a freely positionable radiation camera; a spatial coordinate determining system that determines the coordinates of the camera; and a receiver which receives the spatial coordinate information and imaging information, generated by the camera and provides imaging information referenced to a coordinate system not fixed in the camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Elgems Ltd.Inventor: Naor Wainer
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Publication number: 20040065828Abstract: A radiation camera system, comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: ELGEMS LTD.Inventor: Naor Wainer