Patents by Inventor Shlomo Ben-Haim

Shlomo Ben-Haim 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).

  • Publication number: 20210121093
    Abstract: A method for measuring tissue conductance isotropy including measuring tissue conductance in a first direction, measuring tissue conductance in a second direction, and calculating tissue conductance isotropy based on the tissue conductance in the first direction and the tissue conductance in the second direction, wherein the second direction is not parallel to the first direction. A system for measuring tissue conductance isotropy including a catheter including a current source electrode, a plurality of induced voltage measuring electrodes, a signal processing unit for calculating tissue conductance isotropy based on tissue conductance measured in a first direction and tissue conductance measured in a second direction. Related apparatus, methods and computer program product are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventor: Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Patent number: 10987069
    Abstract: An N-M tomography system comprising: a carrier for the subject of an examination procedure; a plurality of detector heads; a carrier for the detector heads; and a detector positioning arrangement operable to position the detector heads during performance of a scan without interference or collision between adjacent detector heads to establish a variable bore size and configuration for the examination. Additionally, collimated detectors providing variable spatial resolution for SPECT imaging and which can also be used for PET imaging, whereby one set of detectors can be selectably used for either modality, or for both simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited
    Inventors: Nathaniel Roth, Yoel Zilberstein, Shlomo Ben-Haim, Benny Rousso
  • Patent number: 10964075
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing a radioactive emission image of an overall volume having first and second volumetric regions, each volumetric region having respectively independent dynamic characteristics. The method comprises the following steps: a) obtaining radioactive emissions from the overall volume, including the volumetric regions, b) reconstructing an initial radioactive emission image of the volumetric region according to the radioactive emissions, c) segmenting the initial radioactive emission image to delineate the first and second volumetric regions, and d) separately reconstructing the first and the second volumetric regions according to the respectively independent dynamic characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Spectrum Dynamics LLC
    Inventors: Omer Ziv, Ran Ravhon, Eli Dichterman, Leonid Gluhovsky, Shlomo Ben-Haim, Benny Rousso
  • Publication number: 20210090215
    Abstract: A method of generating a combined image of a body part from a sequence of partially overlapping source images of the body part, each of the partially overlapping source images showing the body part at one of a plurality of different times, the source images being ordered in the sequence according to the different times, the method including defining a temporally coherent sequence of transformations, for registering the partially overlapping source images in the sequence with each other, registering the source images to each other using the defined temporally coherent sequence of transformations, to obtain co-registered images, and combining at least some of the co-registered images into a combined image. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Eli DICHTERMAN
  • Patent number: 10939822
    Abstract: A method of guiding a cardiac treatment using a functional imaging modality, comprising: providing functional imaging modality data from a functional imaging modality which images an intrabody volume of a patient containing a heart, the patient having been injected with an imaging agent having a nervous tissue uptake by an autonomic nervous system (ANS) of the heart, the ANS comprising at least one GP; locating the at least one GP innervating the heart based on the functional imaging modality data; and providing the located at least one GP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Tylerton International Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Yoel Zilberstien, Nathaniel Roth
  • Publication number: 20210052331
    Abstract: Electrical field imaging is performed using optionally any of a range of medical implements having a designated medical use (e.g., having a working portion for manipulating tissue); and furthermore supplied with at least one electrode that is used to transmit and/or receive an electrical field which interacts with the dielectric properties of tissue. In some embodiments, the at least one electrode is supplied as an add-on assembly, optionally as part of a kit including the medical implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventor: Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Publication number: 20210030468
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of providing a client terminal with instructions for treatment of at least a portion of an organ of a patient, the method comprising: receiving electrical readings obtained by electrodes located within the portion of the organ, identifying by at least one classifier instructions for treatment of a region in the portion of the organ identified as an intervention target region, wherein the classifier identifies the instructions for treatment of the region based on electrical readings or a transformation thereof previously associated with treatment of intervention target regions in the portion of the organ of other patients, and marking on an image of the portion of the organ presented on a display, the instruction for treatment of the region identified by the classifier as an intervention target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Zalman IBRAGIMOV, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Yizhaq SHMAYAHU, Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Publication number: 20200305970
    Abstract: Methods and systems for position determination of an intrabody probe, targets of an intrabody probe, and or actions to be performed using an intrabody probe are described. In some embodiments, an anatomy being navigated and/or mapped is described by a rule-based schema relating different anatomically identified structures to one another according to their ability to help identify and/or locate one another. Additionally, in some embodiments, data recorded from the intrabody probe is processed according to schema rules in order to provide anatomical identification of the anatomical region which the intrabody probe is measuring, optionally without performing detailed mapping, and/or prior to the availability of detailed mapping of anatomical geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ
  • Publication number: 20200289025
    Abstract: A method of reconstructing a shape of a volume of a part of a subject based on intrabody measurements of a plurality of crossing electromagnetic fields established within the volume, the method including: receiving, by computer circuitry, measurements of the crossing electromagnetic fields carried out using at least one sensor carried on an intrabody probe, the measuring being carried out with the probe at multiple locations in the volume, to provide a set of measurement samples, each taken at a location; generating, by computer circuitry and based on said measurement samples, a transformation that transforms measurement samples to geometric positions; transforming, using said generated transformation fewer than half of the measurements in said set of measurement samples into a set of geometric positions; and reconstructing the shape of said volume from said set of geometric positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Eli DICHTERMAN, Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Patent number: 10776961
    Abstract: A method of data presentation in which NM data and x-ray data (or other structural and/or functional data sets) are combined for display. In some exemplary embodiments of the invention, the combination uses rules, for example Boolean rules to generate a display. In some exemplary embodiments of the invention, the combination uses a marker visible in the NM and x-ray modalities. Optionally, the marker includes a removable radioactive section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Navix International Limited
    Inventor: Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20200286225
    Abstract: Methods for creation and use (e.g., for navigation) of displays of flattened (e.g., curvature-straightened) 3-D reconstructions of tissue surfaces, optionally including reconstructions of the interior surfaces of hollow organs. In some embodiments, data comprising a 3-D representation of a tissue surface (for example an interior heart chamber surface) are subject to a geometrical transformation allowing the tissue surface to be presented substantially within a single view of a flattened reconstruction. In some embodiments, a catheter probe in use near the tissue surface is shown in positions that correspond to positions in 3-D space sufficiently to permit navigation; e.g., the probe is shown in flattened reconstruction views nearby view regions corresponding to regions it actually approaches. In some embodiments, automatic and/or easily triggered manual view switching between flattened reconstruction and source reconstruction views is implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Leonid GLUHOVSKY, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Eli DICHTERMAN, Yaara YARDEN
  • Publication number: 20200279412
    Abstract: A method of NM image reconstruction, including: (a) acquiring a first set of NM data of a part of the body; (b) collecting a probe position and/or probe NM data from an intrabody probe; (c) reconstructing an NM image from said NM data using said collected probe data. Also described is a method of navigating to a target in a body, including: (a) acquiring a NM image of a part of the body; (b) collecting NM data from an intrabody probe; (c) correlating said image and said data; and (d) extracting location information of said probe relative to said target based on said correlated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventor: Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Publication number: 20200196908
    Abstract: Methods and systems for position determination of an intrabody probe, targets of an intrabody probe, and or actions to be performed using an intrabody probe are described. In some embodiments, an anatomy being navigated and/or mapped is described by a rule-based schema relating different anatomically identified structures to one another according to their ability to help identify and/or locate one another. Additionally, in some embodiments, data recorded from the intrabody probe is processed according to schema rules in order to provide anatomical identification of the anatomical region which the intrabody probe is sampling, optionally without performing detailed mapping, and/or prior to the availability of detailed mapping of anatomical geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Zalman IBRAGIMOV
  • Patent number: 10672152
    Abstract: A method of NM image reconstruction, including: (a) acquiring a first set of NM data of a part of the body; (b) collecting a probe position and/or probe NM data from an intrabody probe; (c) reconstructing an NM image from said NM data using said collected probe data. Also described is a method of navigating to a target in a body, including: (a) acquiring a NM image of a part of the body; (b) collecting NM data from an intrabody probe; (c) correlating said image and said data; and (d) extracting location information of said probe relative to said target based on said correlated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Navis International Limited
    Inventor: Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20200163569
    Abstract: A method of estimating a spatial relationship between at least a part of a patient esophagus and a heart chamber, including :measuring at least one electric parameter at one or more positions within the heart chamber to obtain measured values; and estimating the spatial relationship based on the measured values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Zalman IBRAGIMOV, Yehonatan BEN DAVID, Yizhaq SHMAYAHU, Eli DICHTERMAN, Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Patent number: 10646183
    Abstract: A method of tissue recognition of tissue type in a heart or other tissue, comprising: (i) injecting a patient with a radioactive tracer; (ii) collecting radiation emitted from cardiac tissue (iii) associating said collected radiation with a wall of the heart; and (iv) analyzing said associated radiation to recognize fibrous tissue in the heart wall. Optionally, the resolution of the association is better than 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Tylerton International Inc.
    Inventor: Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20200060757
    Abstract: Methods for estimating of the effectiveness of catheter ablation procedures to form lesions. Lesion effectiveness parameters are received, and effectiveness of a corresponding ablation (optionally planned, current, and/or already performed) is estimated. The estimating is based on use by computer circuitry of an estimator constructed based on observed associations between previously analyzed lesion effectiveness parameters, and observed lesion effectiveness. The estimator is used by application to the received lesion effectiveness parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Yizhaq SHMAYAHU, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Haim RODRIGUEZ, Eli DICHTERMAN, Zalman IBRAGIMOV, Yaara YARDEN
  • Patent number: D878413
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NAVIX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Yitzhack Schwartz, Leonid Gluhovsky, Yaara Yarden
  • Patent number: D878414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NAVIX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Leonid Gluhovsky, Yitzhack Schwartz, Yaara Yarden
  • Patent number: D889476
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: NAVIX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Yitzhack Schwartz, Leonid Gluhovsky, Yaara Yarden