Patents by Inventor Roman Fischbach

Roman Fischbach 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 and data processing device to support diagnosis and/or therapy of a pathological change of a blood vessel
    Patent number: 7570983
    Abstract: In a method to support the diagnosis and/or therapy of a pathological change of a blood vessel of a patient, in particular in the context of coronary heart disease at a first point in time of a pixel-based or voxel-based first image is acquired with the blood vessel of interest by an imaging method, a determination is made from the first image of a quantity of existing non-calcified plaque and a quantity of existing calcium-rich plaque, a determination of a first indicator value is made from the quantities of the different plaque types that represents a measurement of the quantity and the composition of plaque present in the blood vessel at the first point in time, a comparison of the first indicator value is made with at least one limit value stored in a storage of a data processing device, and dependent on the comparison, a presentation is made on an output unit associated with the electronic data processing device of either a proposal for a measure to be undertaken on the patient, or a proposal for no meas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph Becker, Roman Fischbach, Thomas Flohr, Andreas Kopp, Bernd Ohnesorge, Stefan Schaller
  • Method and data processing device to support diagnosis and/or therapy of a pathological change of a blood vessel
    Publication number: 20040133094
    Abstract: In a method to support the diagnosis and/or therapy of a pathological change of a blood vessel of a patient, in particular in the context of coronary heart disease at a first point in time of a pixel-based or voxel-based first image is acquired with the blood vessel of interest by an imaging method, a determination is made from the first image of a quantity of existing non-calcified plaque and a quantity of existing calcium-rich plaque, a determination of a first indicator value is made from the quantities of the different plaque types that represents a measurement of the quantity and the composition of plaque present in the blood vessel at the first point in time, a comparison of the first indicator value is made with at least one limit value stored in a storage of a data processing device, and dependent on the comparison, a presentation is made on an output unit associated with the electronic data processing device of either a proposal for a measure to be undertaken on the patient, or a proposal for no meas
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Christoph Becker, Roman Fischbach, Thomas Flohr, Andreas Kopp, Bernd Ohnesorge, Stefan Schaller