Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging system (10) having a pedal-switching mechanism (14) for lateral and frontal imaging. The imaging system (10) is particularly useful for positioning an image-capturing device (18) with respect to a patient disposed on an imaging system (10) and may include a support member (20) configured to support a patient or object of interest, and a c-arm imaging equipment (12) configured to be removable to capture images in various directions.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging system (10) having a pedal-switching mechanism (14) for lateral and frontal imaging. The imaging system (10) is particularly useful for positioning an image-capturing device (18) with respect to a patient disposed on an imaging system (10) and may include a support member (20) configured to support a patient or object of interest, and a c-arm imaging equipment (12) configured to be removable to capture images in various directions.

Abstract: A method for enhancing objects of interest in a sequence of noisy images (11), the method comprising: acquiring the sequence of images (11); extracting features (61), (62), (71), (72) related to an object of interest on a background in images of the sequence (11) having an image reference; computing a motion vector corresponding to motion of the object of interest associated with at least two images of the sequence (11); deblurring each image of the sequence based on its corresponding motion vector to form a deblurred sequence of images (13); registering the features related to the object of interest in the deblurred sequence of images with respect to the image reference, yielding a registered sequence of images (15); and integrating with a temporal integration both the object of interest and the background over at least two registered images of the registered sequence of images (15).

Abstract: Scatter compensation is achieved in an X-ray imaging system by providing collimation means in the form of shutters (12) to collimate the primary X-ray beam (1) such that the radiation (8) transmitted through a subject (4) to be imaged is incident substantially centrally on the active part (14) of an image detector (3), so as to define an active border (14b), in respect of which scatter levels can be measured. An electrical signal (104) representative of the scatter level is subtracted from the electrical signal (7) representative of the radiation (8) transmitted through the subject, to obtain a scatter-compensated image signal (106).