Patents by Inventor Randolf Hanke

Randolf Hanke 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: 11906292
    Abstract: An example of a method for time-resolved calculation of a deformation of a body comprises calculating (110) a model of the body during the deformation. The method further comprises calculating (120) a predicted X-ray image for the body for a plurality of time points during the deformation based on the model. The method further comprises obtaining (130) one measured X-ray image of the body each for the time points during the deformation. The method further comprises modifying (140) the model based on the predicted X-ray images and the measured X-ray images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Hiermaier, Randolf Hanke, Siegfried Nau, Stefan Moser, Norman Uhlmann, Jens Fritsch, Malte Kurfiss, Rolf Behrend, Ines Butz
  • Publication number: 20220196397
    Abstract: An example of a method for time-resolved calculation of a deformation of a body comprises calculating (110) a model of the body during the deformation. The method further comprises calculating (120) a predicted X-ray image for the body for a plurality of time points during the deformation based on the model. The method further comprises obtaining (130) one measured X-ray image of the body each for the time points during the deformation. The method further comprises modifying (140) the model based on the predicted X-ray images and the measured X-ray images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan HIERMAIER, Randolf HANKE, Siegfried NAU, Stefan MOSER, Norman UHLMANN, Jens FRITSCH, Malte KURFISS, Rolf BEHREND, Ines BUTZ
  • Patent number: 8781064
    Abstract: A multi-dimensional representation of an object is obtained in that first and second pictures of the object illuminated using an X-ray source are created using a sensor that is located, in relation to the X-ray source, behind the object in a preferential direction defined by the relative positions of the object and of the sensor. A distance in the preferential direction between the X-ray source and the object is different in the first picture than in the second picture. The multi-dimensional representation of the object is obtained by combining the first and second pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Theobald Fuchs, Tobias Schoen, Randolf Hanke
  • Patent number: 8345817
    Abstract: A multi-dimensional representation of an object is obtained in that first and second pictures of the object illuminated using an X-ray source are created using a sensor that is located, in relation to the X-ray source, behind the object in a preferential direction defined by the relative positions of the object and of the sensor. A distance in the preferential direction between the X-ray source and the object is different in the first picture than in the second picture. The multi-dimensional representation of the object is obtained by combining the first and second pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Theobald Fuchs, Tobias Schoen, Randolf Hanke
  • Patent number: 8229061
    Abstract: In an X-ray computer tomograph and a method for examining a component by means of X-ray computer tomography, the component carries out a movement relative to a radiation source detector unit in at least two degrees of freedom of movement, so at least one trajectory can be produced which spans a three-dimensional space. Since the X-radiation has a three-dimensional radiation geometry, volume data can be rapidly obtained and precisely reconstructed to form a three-dimensional X-ray image. The component can be geometrically measured by means of a geometry detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Randolf Hanke, Theobald Fuchs, Tobias Schön, Michael Maisl, Stefan Kasperl
  • Publication number: 20110110487
    Abstract: A multi-dimensional representation of an object is obtained in that first and second pictures of the object illuminated using an X-ray source are created using a sensor that is located, in relation to the X-ray source, behind the object in a preferential direction defined by the relative positions of the object and of the sensor. A distance in the preferential direction between the X-ray source and the object is different in the first picture than in the second picture. The multi-dimensional representation of the object is obtained by combining the first and second pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Theobald Fuchs, Tobias Schoen, Randolf Hanke
  • Publication number: 20110103546
    Abstract: In an X-ray computer tomograph and a method for examining a component by means of X-ray computer tomography, the component carries out a movement relative to a radiation source detector unit in at least two degrees of freedom of movement, so at least one trajectory can be produced which spans a three-dimensional space. Since the X-radiation has a three-dimensional radiation geometry, volume data can be rapidly obtained and precisely reconstructed to form a three-dimensional X-ray image. The component can be geometrically measured by means of a geometry detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Randolf Hanke, Theobald Fuchs, Tobias Schön, Michael Maisl, Stefan Kasperl
  • Publication number: 20050154563
    Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating a state of an object includes a means for providing a three-dimensional representation of the object including information about the state to be evaluated. The three-dimensional representation is then subdivided into a plurality of sub-areas that are subsequently evaluated sub-area by sub-area, namely by two-dimensionally examining each sub-area of the plurality of sub-areas, in order to ascertain data about a place in a sub-area at which the state deviates from a default state. A three-dimensional connection analysis using the data about the places from the individual sub-areas provides a three-dimensional description of a three-dimensional place whose state deviates from the default state. By splitting up the three-dimensional representation into several sub-areas that may be analyzed two-dimensionally, powerful image processing algorithms may be employed. The three-dimensionality is then again achieved by means of a connection analysis of the two-dimensional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Ulf Hassler, Steven Oeckl, Thomas Wenzel, Randolf Hanke, Guenther Kostka
  • Publication number: 20040066908
    Abstract: The invention is based on the knowledge that a representation of an object can be improved via a transmission with regard to a subsequent reconstruction of the object based on the representation, by using simulated data, which correspond to a simulated transmission of the object already prior to a reconstruction as advance information for measuring a transmission of the object and/or for generating the representation from a measured transmission. An inventive method for the representation of an object via a transmission comprises providing simulated data, which correspond to a simulated transmission of the object, for example in a memory, and using the simulated data for measuring a transmission of the object, for example in a computertomograph, to obtain the transmission of the object, by a control and/or using the simulated data for generating the representation from a measured transmission by a data preparation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Randolf Hanke, Stefan Schropfer, Heinz Gerhaeuser, Dietrich Paulus
  • Patent number: 6539789
    Abstract: A device for the contactless detection of a potentially existing essentially edge-free irregularity in a convex surface, which has a structuring that is delimited by edges, comprises a unit for creating a three-dimensional representation of the surface, a unit for extracting the convexity from the three-dimensional representation of the surface and for smoothing the edges of the structuring so as to obtain a convex-free representation of the convex surface which exhibits the irregularity and the structuring, whose edges have now been smoothed, a unit for comparing the convex-free representation with a threshold value so as to identify areal regions of the convex-free representation which are determined by a predetermined relationship to the threshold value, and a unit for analyzing the areas of the identified regions, a region being detected as an irregularity if its area exceeds a predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Guenther Kostka, Peter Schmitt, Ulf Hassler, Randolf Hanke
  • Patent number: 6501066
    Abstract: An arrangement for reading photo-stimulable storage luminescent substances comprises an excitation glass fiber into which light which excites the storage luminescent substance can be fed by means of a light source. Light emitted by the excited storage luminescent substance can be fed into a receiving glass fiber, an end of the excitation glass fiber which is positioned close to the storage luminescent substance being arranged next to an end of the receiving glass fiber which can be positioned close to the storage luminescent substance. The excitation glass fiber (12) has a first numerical aperture and the receiving glass fiber has a second numerical aperture which is large compared with the first numerical aperture, as a result of which the light fed out from the excitation glass fiber is directed straight onto the storage luminescent substance without an optical arrangement and the stimulated light can be captured by the receiving glass fiber without an optical arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung, E.V.
    Inventors: Oliver Schreck, Randolf Hanke
  • Patent number: 6497511
    Abstract: In a method for imaging in digital dental radioscopy making use of a sensor array, the individual image elements of which are smaller than a desired local resolution so that a plurality of image elements forms a respective effective image element, first reference signals, which are generated by the image elements of the sensor array when said sensor array is not exposed to X-radiation, are initially detected. In addition, second reference signals, which are generated by the image elements of the sensor array when said sensor array is exposed to X-radiation, are detected. Subsequently, defective image elements are determined on the basis of the detected first and second reference signals, whereupon an image of an object is produced using exclusively the image elements that have been determined as being non-defective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Günther Kostka, Randolf Hanke
  • Patent number: 6403962
    Abstract: A device for detecting X-radiation comprises a scintillator for converting X-radiation impinging thereon into light, a detecting device for detecting the light produced by the scintillator, and a fibre optic system for feeding the light produced by the scintillator to the detecting device. The device for detecting X-radiation is additionally provided with a heating means for heating at least one section of the fibre optic system to a predetermined temperature while the X-radiation is being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Peter Schmitt, Randolf Hanke, Norbert Bauer, Michael Maisl