Patents by Inventor Narinder S. PAUL

Narinder S. PAUL 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: 9373159
    Abstract: A Compressed Sensing (CS) based image reconstruction method and system is described herein which may be used to reduce the X-ray dose radiation in Computed Tomography (CT) or to decrease the scan duration in MR imaging (MRI). Methods and systems described herein may address problems that have hindered the clinical usage of CS, i.e. computation complexity and modeling problems. Using the described algorithm, high quality images may be recovered from undersampled data which may help to reduce the scan time and the exposed invasive radiations. Using the same set of data in conventional image reconstruction algorithms (e.g. Filtered Back Projection (FBP) in CT) may cause severe streak artifacts and may take significantly more time using Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and parallel clusters with the conventional CS-based methods. This method can be used other imaging modalities using Radon transform (such as C-Arm and electron tomography, for example).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    Inventors: Sayed Masoud Hashemi Amroabadi, Patrick R. Gill, Narinder S. Paul
  • Publication number: 20150187052
    Abstract: A Compressed Sensing (CS) based image reconstruction method and system is described herein which may be used to reduce the X-ray dose radiation in Computed Tomography (CT) or to decrease the scan duration in MR imaging (MRI). Methods and systems described herein may address problems that have hindered the clinical usage of CS, i.e. computation complexity and modeling problems. Using the described algorithm, high quality images may be recovered from undersampled data which may help to reduce the scan time and the exposed invasive radiations. Using the same set of data in conventional image reconstruction algorithms (e.g. Filtered Back Projection (FBP) in CT) may cause severe streak artifacts and may take significantly more time using Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and parallel clusters with the conventional CS-based methods. This method can be used other imaging modalities using Radon transform (such as C-Arm and electron tomography, for example).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Sayed Masoud Hashemi Amroabadi, Patrick R. Gill, Narinder S. Paul
  • Patent number: 8818058
    Abstract: A method of correcting target region in computed tomographic (CT) image, including the steps of obtaining a CT image of a patient; determining the size of a target object in the CT image; and correcting CT numbers of a portion of the CT image that corresponds to the target object, based on the determined size of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, University Health Network
    Inventors: Narinder S. Paul, Ali Ursani, Joerg Blobel
  • Publication number: 20110129057
    Abstract: A method of correcting target region in computed tomographic (CT) image, including the steps of obtaining a CT image of a patient; determining the size of a target object in the CT image; and correcting CT numbers of a portion of the CT image that corresponds to the target object, based on the determined size of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, University Health Network
    Inventors: Narinder S. PAUL, Ali Ursani, Joerg Blobel