Abstract: A computerized method for monitoring, analyzing, normalizing, applying, predicting, etc., various conditions. The method may comprise receiving data from a source over a channel, generating a report based on the data. The report may contain information associated with one or more events assembled in a standardized format responsive to determining the report corresponds to a first existing incident. The method may include supplementing an existing incident with the information of the report, the existing incident being one of a plurality of existing incidents stored in a database and including information corresponding to one or more events at a specified location and a specified time. The method may also include generating a location-score at a specified location and/or a safety-score for an individual, object, and/or asset at the specified location.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system for image decomposition of an anatomical projection image. The system comprises a data processing system which implements a decomposition algorithm of an projection image which is generated by irradiating a part of a subject with imaging radiation. A body portion within the irradiated part is a three-dimensional attenuation structure of an attenuation of the imaging radiation, wherein the attenuation structure represents a member of a predefined class of attenuation structures of the decomposition algorithm, thereby representing a classification of the body portion. The data processing system decomposes the projection image data using the classification of the attenuation structure. The decomposition of the projection image data substantially separates the contribution of the classified body portion to the projection image from the contribution of a further body portion of the subject to the projection image.

Abstract: A computerized method for monitoring, analyzing, normalizing, applying, predicting, etc., various conditions. The method may comprise receiving data from a source over a channel, generating a report based on the data. The report may contain information associated with one or more events assembled in a standardized format responsive to determining the report corresponds to a first existing incident. The method may include supplementing an existing incident with the information of the report, the existing incident being one of a plurality of existing incidents stored in a database and including information corresponding to one or more events at a specified location and a specified time. The method may also include generating a location-score at a specified location and/or a safety-score for an individual, object, and/or asset at the specified location.

Abstract: A computerized method for monitoring, analyzing, normalizing, applying, predicting, etc., various conditions. The method may comprise receiving data from a source over a channel, generating a report based on the data. The report may contain information associated with one or more events assembled in a standardized format responsive to determining the report corresponds to a first existing incident. The method may include supplementing an existing incident with the information of the report, the existing incident being one of a plurality of existing incidents stored in a database and including information corresponding to one or more events at a specified location and a specified time. The method may also include generating a location-score at a specified location and/or a safety-score for an individual, object, and/or asset at the specified location.

Abstract: A calibration method for an MPI (=magnetic particle imaging) apparatus for conducting an MPI experiment, wherein the calibration method comprises m calibration MPI measurements with a calibration test piece and uses these measurements to create an image reconstruction matrix with which the signal contributions of N voxels within an investigation volume of the MPI apparatus are determined, wherein compressed sensing steps are applied in the calibration method with a transformation matrix that sparsifies the image construction matrix, and wherein only a number M<N of calibration MPI measurements for M voxels are carried out, from which the image reconstruction matrix is created and stored. This specifies an efficient method for determination of the system matrix for the MPI imaging method, which does not require much time to determine an MPI system function and nevertheless achieves a high degree of precision.

Abstract: A calibration method for an MPI (=magnetic particle imaging) apparatus for conducting an MPI experiment, wherein the calibration method comprises m calibration MPI measurements with a calibration test piece and uses these measurements to create an image reconstruction matrix with which the signal contributions of N voxels within an investigation volume of the MPI apparatus are determined, wherein compressed sensing steps are applied in the calibration method with a transformation matrix that sparsifies the image construction matrix, and wherein only a number M<N of calibration MPI measurements for M voxels are carried out, from which the image reconstruction matrix is created and stored. This specifies an efficient method for determination of the system matrix for the MPI imaging method, which does not require much time to determine an MPI system function and nevertheless achieves a high degree of precision.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an MPI (Magnetic Particle Imaging) apparatus and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view. Rather than moving the FFP (field free point) along a single, time-consuming high density trajectory it is proposed to use a number of low density trajectories with travelling phase, wherein each of said low density trajectories has the form of a closed curve differently located within the field of view.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for generating and changing a magnetic field in a field of view (28), said magnetic field having a, in particular ball-shaped or line-shaped, first sub-zone (62) having a low magnetic field strength and a second sub-zone (64) having a higher magnetic field strength. The proposed apparatus comprises at least three pairs of first coils (136a-136d), wherein the coils are arranged along a ring around the field of view and wherein the two coils of each pair are opposingly arranged on opposite sides of the field of view, at least one pair of second coils (116) opposingly arranged on opposite sides of the field of view at the open sides of said ring, generator means (110, 130) for generating current signals for provision to said first and second coils for generating the desired magnetic fields by said first and second coils, and control means (150) for controlling said generator means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an MPI (Magnetic Particle Imaging) apparatus and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view. Rather than moving the FFP (field free point) along a single, time-consuming high density trajectory it is proposed to use a number of low density trajectories with travelling phase, wherein each of said low density trajectories has the form of a closed curve differently located within the field of view.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for generating and changing a magnetic field in a field of view (28), said magnetic field having a, in particular ball-shaped or line-shaped, first sub-zone (62) having a low magnetic field strength and a second sub-zone (64) having a higher magnetic field strength. The proposed apparatus comprises at least three pairs of first coils (136a-136d), wherein the coils are arranged along a ring around the field of view and wherein the two coils of each pair are opposingly arranged on opposite sides of the field of view, at least one pair of second coils (116) opposingly arranged on opposite sides of the field of view at the open sides of said ring, generator means (110, 130) for generating current signals for provision to said first and second coils for generating the desired magnetic fields by said first and second coils, and control means (150) for controlling said generator means.