Patents by Inventor Shigenobu Yanaka

Shigenobu Yanaka 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: 4914727
    Abstract: A method of MR dynamic imaging comprises the steps of uniformly dividing one scan which is a minimum measurement unit in generating one image data into a plurality of cycles, sequentially extracting one-scan data which are staggered by a predetermined number of cycles, from a series of data derived by repeating the scan a plurality of times in such a manner that the measurement data in each cycle includes high frequency component and low frequency component of the image, and generating image data from the extracted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Sano, Akira Maeda, Tetsuo Yokoyama, Shigenobu Yanaka, Hideaki Koizumi
  • Patent number: 4485480
    Abstract: A radiation-image photographing apparatus comprises a radiation source, a radiation detector disposed in opposition to the radiation source for detecting radiation through an object to be examined and to generate an electrical signal proportional to the amount of incident radiation, a scanning device for changing the relative, positional relationship between the radiation source and the radiation detector, an analog-to-digital converter for converting the output signal from the radiation detector to a digital quantity, a memory for storing the digital signal, an arithmetic unit, and a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kohno, Hidemi Shiono, Kensuke Sekihara, Shigenobu Yanaka, Takaji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4352020
    Abstract: In the X-ray CT system, the X-ray detectors vary in output characteristics such as linearity, directivity and radiation quality from one detector to another. To make compensations for such irregularities, a plurality of phantoms of different absorption is prepared in the CT system according to the present invention. Namely, this plurality of phantoms is set one by one in the measuring space in the same manner as in the examination of an examinee or subject to be examined; the coefficient of X-ray absorption is determined for each of these phantoms. Further, theoretical values of absorption for each phantom are compared to the actual absorption measurements on each phantom to provide an absorption error value for each detector at differing absorption levels. The actual subject absorption value for each detector is used to pick the two error values closest to the actual value. The two error values are interpolated or extrapolated to find an error value for correcting the actual absorption value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Horiba, Shigenobu Yanaka, Yasuo Kuwabara, Kouichi Koike
  • Patent number: 4212062
    Abstract: A tomographic imaging system is disclosed in which the quantity of absorption or transmittance of a transmissive radiation by or through a certain tomographic cross-section of an object under consideration is detected and the distribution of radiation absorption or transmittance in the cross-section is reconstructed through a convolution operation. A weighting function used in the convolution operation is prepared with a predetermined one of its positive orders the value of which is an integration of the weighting function from the predetermined positive order to positive infinity and a predetermined one of its negative orders the value of which is in integration of the weighting function from the predetermined negative order to negative infinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kohno, Hidemi Shiono, Chitose Nakaya, Kensuke Sekihara, Teruichi Tomura, Shinji Yamamoto, Takayuki Hayakawa, Isao Horiba, Shigenobu Yanaka