Patents by Inventor Thimo Hugger

Thimo Hugger 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).

  • Attenuation correction in emission tomography taking into account the hardware parts that are actually present
    Patent number: 10473741
    Abstract: A method to generate an attenuation correction map to compensate imaging errors in emission tomography resulting from the presence of hardware parts inside the imaging volume of an emission tomograph. Components of 3-dimensional CAD models of the hardware parts to be compensated are converted into voxels on a predetermined grid and assigned a filling factor per voxel. Image data sets of each component are multiplied with respective attenuation coefficients and thereafter superimposed to form an attenuation correction map. Thereby, in a simple and automatable way a profoundly exact, mostly noise-free and exactly reproducible attenuation correction map for attenuation correction in an emission tomography device may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BRUKER BIOSPIN MRI GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Junge, Thimo Hugger
  • ATTENUATION CORRECTION IN EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE HARDWARE PARTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY PRESENT
    Publication number: 20190049539
    Abstract: A method to generate an attenuation correction map to compensate imaging errors in emission tomography resulting from the presence of hardware parts inside the imaging volume of an emission tomograph. Components of 3-dimensional CAD models of the hardware parts to be compensated are converted into voxels on a predetermined grid and assigned a filling factor per voxel. Image data sets of each component are multiplied with respective attenuation coefficients and thereafter superimposed to form an attenuation correction map. Thereby, in a simple and automatable way a profoundly exact, mostly noise-free and exactly reproducible attenuation correction map for attenuation correction in an emission tomography device may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Sven Junge, Thimo Hugger