Patents by Inventor Stefan Lautenschlaeger

Stefan Lautenschlaeger 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: 12178624
    Abstract: A computed tomography device comprises: a gantry with an opening and a radiation protection apparatus configured to cover the opening, wherein the opening is configured to receive an examination object introduced into the opening along a system axis of the gantry; wherein the radiation protection apparatus has a radiation protection curtain, a curtain mounting and a pivot apparatus; wherein the curtain mounting has a bar-shaped area; wherein an upper edge of the radiation protection curtain is attached to the bar-shaped area such that the radiation protection curtain is stretched along the bar-shaped area and hangs down from the bar-shaped area; and wherein the curtain mounting is pivotably supported relative to the gantry about a pivot axis via the pivot apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
    Inventors: Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Roman Achleitner
  • Patent number: 11837362
    Abstract: A storage medium, computer program product, data server, imaging device, telemedicine system and method are for providing at least one image dataset. In an embodiment, the method includes processing at least one raw image dataset, acquired from a patient by an imaging device of a mobile unit, to create a processed image dataset; generating a reduced image dataset by reducing an amount of data of the processed image dataset; and storing at least one of the at least one raw image dataset, the processed image dataset and the reduced image dataset on a data server, the data server being part of the mobile unit and being connected to a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Lautenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 11532144
    Abstract: A method is for actuating a medical imaging device for generating a second three-dimensional image dataset including a target region in a region of interest of a patient with a functional impairment. The method includes providing a first three-dimensional image dataset including the region of interest of the patient; identifying the target region based on the first three-dimensional image dataset, a partial region of the region of interest with the functional impairment being determined; determining an imaging parameter for generating the second three-dimensional image dataset based on the identified target region; and actuating the medical imaging device based on the imaging parameter for the generation of the second three-dimensional image dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Kerstin Mueller, Stefan Lautenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 11517271
    Abstract: A computed tomography device includes, in an embodiment, a gantry including a tunnel-shaped opening, an examination object being introducible into the tunnel-shaped opening for an examination via the computed tomography device; and a radiation protection apparatus to cover the tunnel-shaped opening, the radiation protection apparatus including a first connector and the gantry includes a second connector. In an embodiment, a detachable connection is formable via the first connector and the second connector, to counteract removal of the radiation protection apparatus from the tunnel-shaped opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Roman Achleitner, Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Hans-Juergen Mueller
  • Patent number: 10925553
    Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus for computer tomography, includes a first housing frame; a scanning section, movably disposed in an axial direction with respect to the first housing frame; and driving device(s). The scanning section includes an essentially toroidal scanning section housing including at least one uncovered axial surface, and a radiation source and a radiation detector, rotatably disposed inside of the essentially toroidal scanning section housing. The driving device(s) are configured to move the scanning section along an axial direction with respect to the first housing frame to perform a telescopic motion of the radiation source and radiation detector, during an operation of the medical imaging apparatus. The at least one uncovered axial surface of the essentially toroidal scanning section housing is movable along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Lautenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 10856206
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing image data to a central unit. In an embodiment, the method includes acquiring image data using a mobile imaging device, the mobile imaging device being a mobile communication device or being connected to a mobile communication device; determining bandwidth information relating to a locally available bandwidth for a radio network or multiple separate radio networks; at least one of selecting a communication location for the mobile communication device based on the bandwidth information determined, and selecting the radio network or multiple separate radio networks based on the bandwidth information determined; and at least one of moving the mobile communication device to the selected communication location selected, and using the radio network or multiple separate radio networks selected to transfer the image data to the central unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Lautenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 10646194
    Abstract: A computed tomography system has an x-ray source, x-ray detector, a gantry, and a controller configured to automatically initiate an air-calibration using the source and detector with air in an air space and to determine gain values for channels of the detector from the automatically initiated air-calibration. A computed tomography system having a patient bore, a controller, an x-ray source, and a detector is calibrated by receiving a setting for a medical scan to be performed by the computed tomography system for a particular patient, the setting being one of a plurality of optional values, scanning air and not the patient in the patient bore with the source and the detector using the setting, determining a gain value based on the scanning with the setting and not the other optional values, and scanning the patient with the source and the detector using the setting and the gain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Dedicated2Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Eric Bailey, Charles Landry
  • Publication number: 20190269378
    Abstract: A computed tomography system has an x-ray source, x-ray detector, a gantry, and a controller configured to automatically initiate an air-calibration using the source and detector with air in an air space and to determine gain values for channels of the detector from the automatically initiated air-calibration. A computed tomography system having a patient bore, a controller, an x-ray source, and a detector is calibrated by receiving a setting for a medical scan to be performed by the computed tomography system for a particular patient, the setting being one of a plurality of optional values, scanning air and not the patient in the patient bore with the source and the detector using the setting, determining a gain value based on the scanning with the setting and not the other optional values, and scanning the patient with the source and the detector using the setting and the gain value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Eric Bailey, Charles Landry
  • Patent number: 10327968
    Abstract: A jumpseat for an emergency transport vehicle having a patient compartment that includes a medical scanning device and a patient stretcher having a stretcher axis. The jumpseat includes a post element rotatably attached to a floor portion of the patient compartment, wherein the floor portion is located in a clearance space between the scanning device and a head end of the stretcher. The jumpseat also includes a seating element rotatably attached to the post element. The post and seating elements are moveable between a stowed position wherein the post element and seating element are substantially horizontal and a deployed position wherein the post element is substantially vertical and the seating element is substantially horizontal and located in the clearance space and in-line with a patient's body axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Dedicated2Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Eric Bailey, Charles Landry, Frank Berger
  • Publication number: 20190167495
    Abstract: A jumpseat for an emergency transport vehicle having a patient compartment that includes a medical scanning device and a patient stretcher having a stretcher axis. The jumpseat includes a post element rotatably attached to a floor portion of the patient compartment, wherein the floor portion is located in a clearance space between the scanning device and a head end of the stretcher. The jumpseat also includes a seating element rotatably attached to the post element. The post and seating elements are moveable between a stowed position wherein the post element and seating element are substantially horizontal and a deployed position wherein the post element is substantially vertical and the seating element is substantially horizontal and located in the clearance space and in-line with a patient's body axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Eric Bailey, Charles Landry, Frank Berger
  • Publication number: 20140210600
    Abstract: In a method and system to determine and display assistive information related to the current operating status of a medical apparatus at a mobile auxiliary device, operating parameters describing the current operating status of the medical apparatus are transmitted to the mobile auxiliary device via a wireless (in particular bidirectional) communication connection, and are evaluated at the mobile auxiliary device via a mobile application in order to determine the assistive information, whereupon the assistive information is displayed at least in part by the mobile application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Norbert Rahn
  • Patent number: 8738115
    Abstract: In a method and system for planning and implementing a selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), the liver volume and the tumor volume are automatically calculated in a processor by analysis of items segmented from images obtained from the patient using one or more imaging modalities, with the administration of a contrast agent. The volume of therapeutic agent that is necessary to treat the tumor is automatically calculated from the liver volume, the tumor volume, and the body surface area of the patient and the lung shunt percentage for the patient. The therapeutic agent can be administered via respective feeder vessels in respectively different amounts that correspond to the percentage of blood supply to the tumor from the respective feeder vessels, this distribution also being automatically calculated by analysis of one or more parenchymal blood volume (PBV) images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jessica Amberg, Yu Deuerling-Zheng, Sigrid Ferschel, Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Oliver Meissner
  • Publication number: 20110282193
    Abstract: In a method and system for planning and implementing a selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), the liver volume and the tumor volume are automatically calculated in a processor by analysis of items segmented from images obtained from the patient using one or more imaging modalities, with the administration of contrast agent. In the processor, the volume of therapeutic agent that is necessary to treat the tumor is automatically calculated from the liver volume, the tumor volume, and the body surface area of the patient and the lung shunt percentage for the patient. The segmented tumor, as well as segmented feeder vessels are overlaid on a live fluoroscopic image of the patient during SIRT, to assist in positioning a catheter for administering the therapeutic agent, which is then administered according to the calculated volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Jessica Amberg, Yu Deuerling-Zheng, Sigrid Ferschel, Stefan Lautenschlaeger, Oliver Meissner