Patents by Inventor Rainer Kuth

Rainer Kuth 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).

  • Method for operating a medical imaging examination apparatus
    Patent number: 7072497
    Abstract: In a method for operating an imaging medical examination apparatus and an apparatus operating according to the method, particularly a magnetic resonance apparatus, measured signals of an examination subject are sequentially registered and processed by an image computer into outputtable image data signals of an individual image or a series of images, and the image data of an individual image or a series of images are interpreted with reference to at least one diagnosis-specific parameter that represents a criterion for the image quality to be achieved and that is predetermined, for the individual image or image series. Dependent on the evaluation result, the measured signal acquisition is ended when the prescribed parameter is satisfied or is continued until a renewed interpretation shows that the prescribed parameter has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Faber, Rainer Kuth
  • MR-compatible fluid valve
    Patent number: 7066901
    Abstract: An implantable fluid valve for the adjustable limitation of the fluid pressure in the brain of a patient, has all valve component parts composed of non-magnetic material, thereby making the valve MR-compatible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Kuth, Thomas Rupprecht
  • Method for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus and magnetic resonance apparatus for implementing the method
    Patent number: 7069067
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus comprising a magnetic stimulation device, the method comprising bearing a region of a central nervous system of a living examination subject in an imaging volume of the magnetic resonance apparatus, whereby this region is to be imaged, operating the magnetic stimulation device for stimulating at least one prescribable location of the examination subject outside of the region to be imaged and generating a functional magnetic resonance image of the region to be imaged for imaging a neuronal activity of the central nervous system, whereby said neuronal activity is initiated by the stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Kuth
  • Method and system for producing a time-limited image of a moving organ
    Publication number: 20060079790
    Abstract: In a method, sensor and system for producing time-limited images of a moving organ of a human or animal body, an imaging apparatus acquires image data and, using a sensor situated outside the body, a signal is registered that represents the movement of the organ that is to be imaged. The image data acquisition is coordinated with this signal. A fiber optic sensor is used as the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Rainer Kuth, Axel Schreiber
  • Device for automatically sorting periodic data records
    Patent number: 6999610
    Abstract: Device for automatically sorting periodic data records, in particular for representing the motion of parts in the human body from individual images, an examination monitor with a storage device for the data records been assigned a measuring and evaluation device which measures in the data records two separate points or a line of the moving part and, on the basis of their changes in distance or phase shifts, sorts the data records into a cyclic sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Kuth
  • Method for displaying medical image information with viewing angle-dependent data sets superimpositions
    Publication number: 20060007246
    Abstract: In a method for representation of medical image information on a display medium data sets from different medical examinations are supplied to various information channels of a 3D monitor. Various superimpositions of the data sets are displayed to an observer dependent on the viewing angle. The observer thus has simultaneous access to information from the various medical examinations, which makes the diagnosis easier for him or her.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Rudolf Ackermann, Holger Dresel, Sultan Haider, Rainer Kuth, Klaus Ludwig
  • Method for displaying medical image information dependent on a detected position of the observer
    Publication number: 20050272994
    Abstract: In a method for representation of medical image information on a display medium an image representation parameter is varied dependent on the position of the observer. Superimpositions of data sets from different medical examinations are thereby displayed. The observer thus has simultaneous access to information from the medical examinations, which makes the diagnosis easier for him or her.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Rudolf Ackermann, Holger Dresel, Sultan Haider, Rainer Kuth, Klaus Ludwig
  • Device for clamping tissue
    Publication number: 20050273139
    Abstract: Tissue can be clamped via an endorobot in a simple manner, and at the same time with a high degree of safety, by using a device which is received by the endorobot and which includes a clip, a drive unit and a control unit, as part of the endorobot for example. The clip is able to be advanced out of and retracted into a guide part of the endorobot independently by use of the drive unit, and of the control unit connected to the latter, without complicated mechanical connections to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Norbert Krauss, Rainer Kuth, Johannes Reinschke
  • Device and method for releasing a therapeutic agent brought into the interior of a patient's body
    Publication number: 20050267414
    Abstract: For releasing a therapeutic agent, a release is disclosed. The release allows a release or expulsion of the therapeutic agent that is adapted appropriately for the therapy, and/or for the specific properties of the therapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Friedrich Fuchs, Rainer Kuth, Johannes Reinschke, Guenter Ries, Rudolf Roeckelein
  • Device for four-dimensional representation of a structural variation, in particular of the course of a disease
    Patent number: 6965686
    Abstract: Device for representing the time profile of a structural variation, in particular of the course of a disease with the aid of 2D or 3D data records, by a segmenting device in which time interval data records in the region of the structural variations are differently colored and subsequently matched with the aid of anatomical landmarks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Kuth
  • Apparatus for making medical operating information accessible
    Publication number: 20050251426
    Abstract: An apparatus for making medical operating information accessible has a central server via which a consumer can search a databank with medical operating information in order to find medical operating information suitable for the consumer purposes. The consumers likewise can offer their own measurement parameters to other consumers for use. The apparatus supervises a point system allowing points to be exchanged for medical operating information. Points also can be purchased for payment and likewise converted into monetary-value benefits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Holger Dresel, Rainer Kuth
  • Method for obtaining medically relevant data from the gastrointestinal tract of a human or an animal and measuring probe suitable therefor
    Publication number: 20050228223
    Abstract: A method is for obtaining medically relevant data from the gastrointestinal tract of a patient (human or an animal). The patient is orally administered with a transponder and signals emitted by the transponder during or after passage through the gastrointestinal tract are received, with the aid of a reading device for example. A measuring probe may be suitable for carrying out the method. The probe is designed as a transponder and includes a sensor unit for recording chemical, electrochemical or physical parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Rainer Kuth, Eva Rumpel, Markus Schmidt, Siegfried Schneider, Horst Schreiner, Gudrun Zahlmann
  • Method for the enabling or blocking of an operating mode in a medical diagnostic device
    Publication number: 20050215880
    Abstract: A method for the enabling or blocking of an operating mode in a medical diagnostic device enables the operating mode of the diagnostic device only after successful verification of the consumable material required for the operational mode. The consumable material is identified by a machine-readable identification tag, which is read off by a reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Sean Harrison, Rainer Kuth
  • Device for repeated semi-invasive abrasion of lesions on the walls of hollow organs
    Publication number: 20050209682
    Abstract: A device is for repeated semi-invasive abrasion of lesions on the walls of hollow organs, in particular blood vessels or the gastrointestinal tract of a patient. The device includes an outer stent which, fixed in position at the site of the lesions, can be clamped against the wall of the hollow organ and has recesses through which the lesions can inwardly protrude. The device further includes a cutting body which is guided within the outer stent and only negligibly narrows the internal bore of the outer stent, which cutting body has cutting edges sliding on the inner side of the outer stent and is coupled magnetically to an external magnet system via which it can turn about the stent axis and/or can move longitudinally along the stent axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Friedrich Fuchs, Rainer Kuth, Johannes Reinschke, Guenter Ries, Rudolf Roeckelein
  • Method and medical imaging apparatus for determining a slice in an examination volume for data acquisition in the slice
    Publication number: 20050203372
    Abstract: In a method and medical examination apparatus for determination of the position of at least one slice in an examination area in which slice a slice image acquisition of the examination area by means of the examination device is to occur, a 3D image dataset of the examination area is acquired, which is then brought into registration with a chronologically earlier acquired 3D reference image dataset. The slice in the 3D image dataset is determined by at least one reference slice defined in the 3D reference image dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Isabelle Janssen, Rainer Kuth
  • Device for providing medical consultation services
    Publication number: 20050192840
    Abstract: Device for provision of medical consultancy services, in which experts, especially radiological experts of clinics or universities for example, provide practical assistance to less specialized system operators such as doctors, MTAs or such like for optimum operation of medical examination or treatment devices, with both an expert's computer (10) as well as the medical system operator's device (5), which are preferably linked to each other via an Internet connection, being equipped with “remote service software” (7) which makes it possible for the devices to be operated remotely and with the system operator and the expert being connected to one another via a proxy server (11) of a service provider who both guarantees data protection and also coordinates billing for the consultancy services provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Georg Gortler, Rainer Kuth
  • Device for introducing a stent into a hollow organ
    Publication number: 20050192660
    Abstract: A device is for introducing a stent into a hollow organ, in particular into the gastrointestinal tract of the body of a patient. The device includes a magnet system which covers the area of treatment of the patient and generates a 3D gradient field for remote-controlled movement and orientation of an endorobot. The endorobot is provided with a linear magnet and is freely movable in the hollow organ. Further, the stent, which can be uncoupled from the outside, is secured to the endorobot in a folded-down state so that it can be brought to the site of use and can there be opened out so as to bear firmly on the wall of the hollow organ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Friedrich Fuchs, Rainer Kuth, Johannes Reinschke, Guenter Ries, Rudolf Roeckelein
  • Method of monitoring patient participation in a clinical study
    Publication number: 20050182664
    Abstract: A method is proposed for monitoring participation of a patient in at least one clinical trial. The method includes collecting data regarding at least one clinical trial for the patient. Using a computer device, the collected data is then compared to at least one threshold. Finally, the patient is rewarded upon the collected data at least meeting at least one threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Gudrun Zahlmann, Rainer Kuth, Eva Rumpel, Siegfried Schneider, Markus Schmidt, Horst Schreiner
  • Method and system for measuring quality of performance and/or compliance with protocol of a clinical study
    Publication number: 20050182657
    Abstract: A method is proposed for determining clinical study compliance. The method includes obtaining criteria for the clinical study and accessing stored clinical data relating to the clinical study. Thereafter, the criteria and clinical data are correlated to determine a measure of compliance with the criteria of the clinical study.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Gudrun Zahlmann, Rainer Kuth, Eva Rumpel, Siegfried Schneider, Markus Schmidt, Horst Schreiner
  • Method of examining a plurality of sites for a clinical trial
    Publication number: 20050182663
    Abstract: A method is proposed for examining a plurality of sites for a clinical trial. The method includes obtaining criteria for clinical trial and determining, using a computer device, how information regarding each of a plurality of clinical trial sites relates to the obtained criteria. Based upon the determinations, a plurality of the clinical trial sites are ranked. Thereafter, the ranked clinical trial sites may be reported to a sponsor of the clinical trial, and payment may be received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Gudrun Zahlmann, Rainer Kuth, Eva Rumpel, Siegfried Schneider, Markus Schmidt, Horst Schreiner