Patents by Inventor Verena Schultheis

Verena Schultheis 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).

  • Stent and method for determining the position of a stent
    Patent number: 8463005
    Abstract: A method for determining the position of a stent within a body, comprising the steps of: providing a 3D dataset of voxels representing a 3D image containing the stent; determining a starting position for the determination of the stent position; determining the axis of symmetry of the stent in the 3D dataset; determining a second dataset representing at least one image containing the stent in its present position; and determining the positional offset of the stent by image fusion using the 3D dataset and the second dataset and by penalizing a rotation around the axis of symmetry as compared to the starting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Stephan Erbel, Verena Schultheis, Rainer Birkenbach
  • STENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A STENT
    Publication number: 20100228340
    Abstract: A method for determining the position of a stent within a body, comprising the steps of: providing a 3D dataset of voxels representing a 3D image containing the stent; determining a starting position for the determination of the stent position; determining the axis of symmetry of the stent in the 3D dataset; determining a second dataset representing at least one image containing the stent in its present position; and determining the positional offset of the stent by image fusion using the 3D dataset and the second dataset and by penalizing a rotation around the axis of symmetry as compared to the starting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Stephan Erbel, Verena Schultheis, Rainer Birkenbach