Patents by Inventor Yongquan YE

Yongquan YE 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: 20200302605
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system for noise analysis. The system may acquire a plurality of signals of a subject, and determine a signal representation of the subject based on the plurality of signals. The system may determine an updated signal representation of the subject by adding a signal disturbance into the plurality of signals. The system may further determine a value of a noise parameter indicative of a signal level of the plurality of signals relative to noise of the plurality of signals based on the signal representation and the updated signal representation of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: UIH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Yongquan YE
  • Patent number: 10638951
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining first image data of a first subject and obtaining a target machine learning model. The first image data may indicate a first intensity distribution of a first magnetic field relative to at least one portion of the first subject. The target machine learning model may provide a mapping relationship between second intensity distributions of second magnetic fields and corresponding second susceptibility distributions associated with second subjects under the second magnetic fields. The method may also include generating a first susceptibility distribution associated with the first subject under the first magnetic field based on the target machine learning model and the first image data. The method may further include determining a target MR image of the at least one portion of the first subject based on the first susceptibility distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongquan Ye, Jinguang Zong
  • Patent number: 10571543
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for vehicle management. The systems may perform the methods to obtain a plurality of echo signals representing a subject, the plurality of echo signals being formed at a plurality of different echo times; generate a plurality of phase wrapped images based on the plurality of echo signals, each phase wrapped image comprising one or more first wrapped values; generate a phase difference map based on the plurality of phase wrapped images, the phase difference map comprising one or more second wrapped values; generate an unwrapped phase difference map by unwrapping the one or more second wrapped values in the phase difference map; determine a first field distribution map based on the unwrapped phase difference map; and generate a plurality of unwrapped phase images by unwrapping the one or more first wrapped values in each phase wrapped image based on the first field distribution map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yongquan Ye, Jinguang Zong
  • Publication number: 20200008701
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining first image data of a first subject and obtaining a target machine learning model. The first image data may indicate a first intensity distribution of a first magnetic field relative to at least one portion of the first subject. The target machine learning model may provide a mapping relationship between second intensity distributions of second magnetic fields and corresponding second susceptibility distributions associated with second subjects under the second magnetic fields. The method may also include generating a first susceptibility distribution associated with the first subject under the first magnetic field based on the target machine learning model and the first image data. The method may further include determining a target MR image of the at least one portion of the first subject based on the first susceptibility distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongquan YE, Jinguang ZONG
  • Patent number: 10495715
    Abstract: A method for determining a flow sensitive gradient block includes determine a gradient parameter for one or more echoes in an imaging sequence according to a scanning protocol. The method also includes determining one or more time origins for gradient moment calculation based on the gradient parameter and obtaining one or more target zeroth-order gradient moments and one or more target first-order gradient moments corresponding to the one or more time origins. The method further includes determining one or more parameters of the one or more flow sensitive gradient blocks with respect to the one or more target zeroth-order gradient moments and the one or more target first-order gradient moment and updating the gradient parameter according to the one or more parameters of the one or more flow sensitive gradient blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: UIH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Yongquan Ye
  • Publication number: 20190318511
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a distribution map of susceptibility property of an object are provided. The method may include one or more of the following operations. A phase diagram corresponding to a magnetic resonance (MR) signal of the object may be obtained. A preliminary field map may be determined based on the phase diagram. Preliminary error limiting information associated with the preliminary field map may be obtained. A preliminary distribution map of susceptibility property of the object may be determined based on the preliminary field map and the preliminary error limiting information. An iteration process including at least one iteration may be performed to determine a target distribution map of susceptibility property of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongquan YE
  • Patent number: 10416263
    Abstract: A system and method for magnetic resonance imaging is provided. The method may include: determining a scanning parameter, wherein the scanning parameter includes one or more predetermined values; obtaining one or more MR signal sets based on the one or more predetermined values; generating one or more original images based on the one or more MR signal sets, wherein an original image corresponds to an MR signal set; determining one or more virtual values associated with the scanning parameter; and generating one or more virtual images based on the one or more virtual values and the one or more original images, wherein a virtual image corresponds to a virtual value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongquan Ye
  • Patent number: 10185012
    Abstract: A system and method for magnetic resonance imaging is provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of echo signals relating to a region of interest of a subject at a number of echo times; generating a plurality of phase images based on the plurality of echo signals; generating an unwrapped phase map by performing a phase unwrapping correction to the plurality of phase images; generating a virtual phase map based on the unwrapped phase map; determining a phase mask based on the virtual phase map; obtaining magnitude information of the plurality of echo signals; and generating a susceptibility weighted image based on the phase mask and the magnitude information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongquan Ye, Jinguang Zong
  • Publication number: 20180353098
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for MRI with respect to vessels and bleedings. The method may include exciting a region of interest by applying an RF pulse, wherein the region of interest includes a vessel region and a bleeding region. The method may further include acquiring a plurality of echo signals related to the region of interest. The method may further include generating one or more magnitude images based on the plurality of echo signals, generating a first image with respect to the vessel region based on the one or more magnitude images, generating one or more phase images based on the plurality of echo signals, and generating a second image with respect to a distribution of susceptibility of the bleeding region based on the one or more phase images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., The affiliated Drum Tower hospital of Nanjing university medical school
    Inventors: Yongquan YE, Bing ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20180340998
    Abstract: A method for determining a flow sensitive gradient block includes determine a gradient parameter for one or more echoes in an imaging sequence according to a scanning protocol. The method also includes determining one or more time origins for gradient moment calculation based on the gradient parameter and obtaining one or more target zeroth-order gradient moments and one or more target first-order gradient moments corresponding to the one or more time origins. The method further includes determining one or more parameters of the one or more flow sensitive gradient blocks with respect to the one or more target zeroth-order gradient moments and the one or more target first-order gradient moment and updating the gradient parameter according to the one or more parameters of the one or more flow sensitive gradient blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: UIH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Yongquan YE
  • Publication number: 20180231631
    Abstract: A system and method for magnetic resonance imaging is provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of echo signals relating to a region of interest of a subject at a number of echo times; generating a plurality of phase images based on the plurality of echo signals; generating an unwrapped phase map by performing a phase unwrapping correction to the plurality of phase images; generating a virtual phase map based on the unwrapped phase map; determining a phase mask based on the virtual phase map; obtaining magnitude information of the plurality of echo signals; and generating a susceptibility weighted image based on the phase mask and the magnitude information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongquan YE, Jinguang ZONG
  • Publication number: 20180203087
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for vehicle management. The systems may perform the methods to obtain a plurality of echo signals representing a subject, the plurality of echo signals being formed at a plurality of different echo times; generate a plurality of phase wrapped images based on the plurality of echo signals, each phase wrapped image comprising one or more first wrapped values; generate a phase difference map based on the plurality of phase wrapped images, the phase difference map comprising one or more second wrapped values; generate an unwrapped phase difference map by unwrapping the one or more second wrapped values in the phase difference map; determine a first field distribution map based on the unwrapped phase difference map; and generate a plurality of unwrapped phase images by unwrapping the one or more first wrapped values in each phase wrapped image based on the first field distribution map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongquan YE, Jinguang ZONG
  • Publication number: 20180017652
    Abstract: A system and method for magnetic resonance imaging is provided. The method may include: determining a scanning parameter, wherein the scanning parameter includes one or more predetermined values; obtaining one or more MR signal sets based on the one or more predetermined values; generating one or more original images based on the one or more MR signal sets, wherein an original image corresponds to an MR signal set; determining one or more virtual values associated with the scanning parameter; and generating one or more virtual images based on the one or more virtual values and the one or more original images, wherein a virtual image corresponds to a virtual value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Yongquan YE