Beam Detection System Patents (Class 378/19)
  • Patent number: 11672502
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes a hardware processor that acquires a first imaging condition set as a imaging condition for a preliminary exposure performed prior to a main exposure that performs an exposure of radiation on a subject, and the hardware processor performs control based on compatibility of the acquired first imaging condition and a second imaging condition input as an imaging condition for the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Miyake, Kosuke Fukazu, Keisuke Koeda
  • Patent number: 11675094
    Abstract: An X-ray device is provided, which includes a flexible substrate, a driver integrated circuit, and a scintillator layer. The flexible substrate includes an array portion and an extension portion. The driver integrated circuit is disposed on the flexible substrate. The scintillator layer is disposed on the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: InnoCare Optoelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wen Chien Lin, Chih-Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 11656374
    Abstract: A photon counting device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert input light to charge, and an amplifier configured to amplify the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element and convert the charge to a voltage, an A/D converter configured to convert the voltages output from the amplifiers of the plurality of pixels to digital values; and a conversion unit configured to convert the digital value output from the A/D converter to the number of photons by referring to reference data, for each of the plurality of pixels, and the reference data is created based on a gain and an offset value for each of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tadashi Maruno, Eiji Toda, Mao Nakajima, Teruo Takahashi, Takafumi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11657486
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving soft tissue contrast, characterizing tissue, classifying phenotype, stratifying risk, and performing multi-scale modeling aided by multiple energy or contrast excitation and evaluation are provided. The systems and methods can include single and multi-phase acquisitions and broad and local spectrum imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque tissues in the vessel wall and perivascular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ELUCID BIOIMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Buckler, Changguo Ji, Murali Ayyapillai
  • Patent number: 11647971
    Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system having a cylindrical wall that forms a tunnel that receives a patient to be scanned. The lighting arrangement includes a transparent wall section formed in the wall, wherein the transparent wall section extends along a transparent portion of a wall circumference. The imaging system also includes a lighting device located adjacent an outer surface of the transparent wall section. The lighting device extends along a device portion of a wall circumference corresponding to the transparent portion wherein light emitted by the lighting device is transmitted through the transparent wall section in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the tunnel to circumferentially illuminate the tunnel. In addition, a system status is indicated by a color of light emitted by the LEDs. Further, light emitted by the lighting device varies in intensity to indicate a changing count rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom, James Williams
  • Patent number: 11651769
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to receive audio data corresponding to a user's utterance, to identify the user's utterance characteristics based on the received audio data, to determine a parameter for performing voice activity detection, by using the identified user's utterance characteristics, and to perform voice activity detection on the received audio data with respect to the user's utterance by using the determined parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chanhee Choi
  • Patent number: 11644585
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a system. The system may include a gantry, a detector assembly including a plurality of detector modules arranged on the gantry, and/or a cooling assembly configured to cool the detector assemble. Each of the plurality of detector modules may include a crystal array configured to detect radiation rays, and a shielding component configured to shield the crystal array from an electromagnetic interference. The cooling assembly may include a plurality of cooling components. Each of the plurality of cooling components may be embedded in a corresponding detector module of the plurality of detector modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guanghe Wu, Fangjie Xu, Kai Shao, Huaifang Jiang, Miao Li
  • Patent number: 11611012
    Abstract: A lighting device and method for manufacturing the lighting device are provided. A substrate contains at least a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. Light-sensitive material is provided on the first surface and/or the second surface. The light-sensitive material is exposed to light by applying the light from a light source onto a mask having a periodic pattern of light-attenuating features with interspaced light-permeable features. The light forms a periodic distribution of high intensity regions with interspaced low intensity regions at the first surface and/or the second surface. A periodic structure is formed based on the exposed light-sensitive material and includes light-attenuating features and light-permeable features corresponding to the light-attenuating features and light-permeable features of the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Rob Jacques Paul Engelen
  • Patent number: 11599990
    Abstract: A deterioration determination method in a deterioration determination device configured to determine deterioration of an X-ray detector of an industrial X-ray imaging apparatus, the deterioration determination method including: an acquisition step of acquiring a captured image generated by the X-ray detector; a statistical processing step of generating statistical processing information of the captured image; and a determination step of determining whether or not the X-ray detector has been deteriorated, based on the statistical processing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Bunta Matsuhana, Goro Kambe
  • Patent number: 11596810
    Abstract: An image guiding device includes a gantry, an imaging source, an imager, and an image server. The imaging source, the imager and the image server are all mounted on the gantry. The imager is connected to the image server. The imaging source is arranged to face the imager. The imaging source emits X-rays. The imager receives X-rays passing through an affected part of a patient, generates projection data based on the received X-rays, and sends the projection data to the image server. The image server processes the projection data to obtain an image of the affected part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Our United Corporation
    Inventors: Jiuliang Li, Hao Yan, Renqing Liu, Ming Zhong, Jinsheng Li
  • Patent number: 11592586
    Abstract: Described here are systems and methods for optimization techniques for automatically selecting x-ray beam spectra, energy threshold, energy bin settings, and other imaging technique parameters for photon-counting detector computed tomography (“PCCT”). The techniques described here are generally based on subject or object size, material of interest, and location of the target material. Advantageously, the optimizations can be integrated with different PCCT systems to automatically select optimal imaging technique parameters before scanning a particular subject or object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Cynthia H. McCollough, Zhoubo Li, Shuai Leng
  • Patent number: 11585977
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser has a mirror formed in a gain chip. The mirror can be placed in the gain chip to provide a broadband reflector to support multiple lasers using the gain chip. The mirror can also be placed in the gain chip to have the semiconductor laser be more efficient or more powerful by changing an optical path length of the gain of the semiconductor laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Damien Lambert
  • Patent number: 11585953
    Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a detector module of an imaging apparatus. The detector module may include a detector assembly configured to detect a signal associated with an object; a cover assembly configured to accommodate the detector assembly; and at least one cooling assembly operably coupled to the cover assembly. The at least one cooling assembly may be configured to cool the detector assembly by providing a cooling medium to the cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ting Ye, Yajun Wu
  • Patent number: 11576627
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data acquisition device and a configuration method. The device includes a channel, wherein the channel includes a data control panel and a plurality of detection components. At least one of the plurality of detection components is directly connected to the data control panel. The data control panel may be configured to identify the channel and send a configuration command to the plurality of detection components. The plurality of detection components may determine channel location numbers of the plurality of detection components based on the configuration command and send the channel location numbers to the data control panel. The data control panel may determine identification numbers for the plurality of detection components based on the channel location numbers and allocate the identification numbers to the plurality of detection components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Longzi Yang
  • Patent number: 11547378
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided that uses a deep learning (DL) network together with a multi-resolution detector to perform X-ray projection imaging to provide improved resolution similar to a single-resolution detector but at lower cost and less demand on the communication bandwidth between the rotating and stationary parts of an X-ray gantry. The DL network is trained using a training dataset that includes input data and target data. The input data includes projection data acquired using a multi-resolution detector, and the target data includes projection data acquired using a single-resolution, high-resolution detector. Thus, the DL network is trained to improve the resolution of projection data acquired using a multi-resolution detector. Further, the DL network is can be trained to additional correct other aspects of the projection data (e.g., noise and artifacts).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ilmar Hein, Zhou Yu, Tzu-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 11540787
    Abstract: A medical imaging system for detecting ionizing radiation. The system includes one or more pixilated imagers positioned to acquire patient image data and one or more position sensors positioned to acquire patient position data. Once the patient image data and patient position data are acquired, one or more processors operably connected to each of the one or more pixilated imagers and one or more position sensors calculate a three-dimensional mass distribution based on patient image data and patient position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: IMAGE INSIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Eric P. Rubenstein, Peter R. Solomon, Gordon A. Drukier, Marek A. Wojtowicz, Joseph E. Cosgrove, Michael A. Serio, James R. Markham, Kenneth W. Wang, William M. Pramenko
  • Patent number: 11529110
    Abstract: A method for operating a medical imaging apparatus includes acquiring a first image data set of a region of interest of the patient; automatically evaluating the first image data set using at least one evaluation algorithm yielding evaluation information, regarding at least one type of findings, describing a presence of at least one finding of the type requiring the acquisition of a second image data set and at least one imaging parameter for the second image data set; automatically notifying a user, upon the evaluation information indicating the presence of a required second image data set, of the required acquisition of the second image data set; and acquiring the second image data set acquiring the second image data set after confirmation of acquisition of the second image data set by the user, in a same examination process, using the at least one imaging parameter of the evaluation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Taubmann, Wladimir Lesyuk, Michael Suehling, Matthias May, Michael Uder
  • Patent number: 11523783
    Abstract: There are provided a radiation detector module, a radiation detector, and a radiographic imaging apparatus which make it possible to increase the row number while suppressing a length in a body-axis direction. The radiation detector module includes a detector substrate on which a scintillator, a photodiode, and AD conversion chips are loaded, and a control substrate which supplies power to the detector substrate and controls the operation of an AD conversion unit (AFE) of each AD conversion chip of the detector substrate. The plurality of radiation detector modules configure a radiation detector which suppresses the length in the body-axis direction by connecting together the two substrates so as to form a two-stage structure by stacking connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Hayashi, Takafumi Ishitsu, Masafumi Onouchi
  • 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: 11520064
    Abstract: An apparatus suitable for detecting X-ray is disclosed. In one example, the apparatus comprises an X-ray absorption layer and a controller. The X-ray absorption layer comprises a first pixel and a second pixel. The controller is configured for determining whether all carriers generated in the X-ray absorption layer by an X-ray photon are collected by the first pixel and the second pixel, and determining the energy of the X-ray photon based on a sum of a first portion of the carriers that is collected by the first pixel and a second portion of the carriers that is collected by the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 11520060
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is radiation detector, comprising a first photodiode comprising a first junction; and a first scintillator, wherein a first point in a first plane and inside the first scintillator is essentially completely surrounded in the first plane by an intersection of the first plane and the first junction. The first junction is a p-n junction, a p-i-n junction, a heterojunction, or a Schottky junction. The radiation detector further comprises a first reflector configured to guide essentially all photons emitted by the first scintillator into the first photodiode. The first scintillator is essentially completely enclosed by the first reflector and the first photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 11484279
    Abstract: A system and method include acquisition of a plurality of projection images of a subject, each of the projection images associated with a respective projection angle, determination, for each of the projection images, of a center-of-light location in a first image region, determination of a local fluctuation measure based on the determined center-of-light locations, and determination of a quality measure associated with the plurality of projection images based on the local fluctuation measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Hans Vija, Xinhong Ding
  • Patent number: 11487026
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is radiation detector, comprising a first photodiode comprising a first junction; and a first scintillator, wherein a first point in a first plane and inside the first scintillator is essentially completely surrounded in the first plane by an intersection of the first plane and the first junction. The first junction is a p-n junction, a p-i-n junction, a heterojunction, or a Schottky junction. The radiation detector further comprises a first reflector configured to guide essentially all photons emitted by the first scintillator into the first photodiode. The first scintillator is essentially completely enclosed by the first reflector and the first photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Yurun Liu
  • Patent number: 11464465
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnosis apparatus includes an X-ray limiter having four diaphragm blades and a console on which four physical operating units that correspond to the four diaphragm blades are placed at four positions. When viewed from the side of the operator of the console, the four operating units are placed on the far side, the near side, the left side, and the right side. The far-side operating unit, the near-side operating unit, the left-side operating unit, and the right-side operating unit correspond to the upper diaphragm blade, the lower diaphragm blade, the left-side diaphragm blade, and the right-side diaphragm blade, respectively, with reference to an X-ray image displayed in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Keisuke Sugawara, Yosuke Kayukawa, Hiroshi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11457521
    Abstract: A method is for spatially influencing a focal spot of an X-ray source that generates X-ray radiation, to an associated X-ray source, to an associated system and to an associated computer program product. The method according to at least one embodiment includes: producing a focal spot on an anode by way of an electron emitter including a plurality of emitter segments, individually controllable to emit electrons; determining at least one actual value of a spatial extent and/or of a position of the produced focal spot; comparing the at least one actual value with a specified reference value of the focal spot; and controlling the emitter segments based upon the comparison of the at least one actual value and the reference value such that the at least one actual value converges toward the reference value, thereby spatially influencing the focal spot of the X-ray source that generates X-ray radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventor: Anja Fritzler
  • Patent number: 11448781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photon counting detector comprising a first direct conversion layer (10) comprising a low-absorption direct conversion material (11) for converting impinging high-energy electromagnetic radiation (100) into a first count signal and first electrical contacts (12), a second direct conversion layer (20) comprising a high-absorption direct conversion material (21) for converting impinging high-energy electromagnetic radiation (100) into a second count signal and second electrical contacts (22), said high-absorption direct conversion material having a higher absorption than said low-absorption direct conversion material, and a carrier layer (30, 30a, 30b) comprising first and second terminals (31, 32) in contact with the first and second electrical contacts and processing circuitry (35) configured to correct, based on the first count signal, the second count signal for errors, wherein said first direct conversion layer and the second direct conversion layer are arranged such that
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Roger Steadman Booker, Ewald Roessl
  • Patent number: 11431928
    Abstract: A digital X-ray detector is provided. The digital X-ray detector includes control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to obtain an electromagnetic interference (EMI) frequency of an EMI signal, to receive a signal to start a scan, to ensure EMI noise is in a same phase during acquisition of offset images and read images to enable a subtraction of the EMI noise, and to start the scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Mahesh Raman Narayanaswamy, Catherine Noel Bailey, Joseph John Kulak, Jeffrey Alan Kautzer, Douglas Albagli, Jeffrey Lange
  • Patent number: 11385191
    Abstract: An image acquisition system includes a radiation source configured to output radiation toward an object, a rotating stage configured to rotate the object around a rotation axis, a radiation camera having an input surface to which the radiation transmitted through the object is input and an image sensor capable of TDI control, and an image processing apparatus configured to generate a radiographic image of the object at an imaging plane P based on the image data. The angle formed between the rotation axis of the rotating stage and the input surface of the radiation camera is set in accordance with the FOD which is the distance between the radiation source and an imaging plane in the object. The radiation camera is configured to perform TDI control in the image sensor in synchronization with the rotational speed of the object rotated by the rotating stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Mototsugu Sugiyama, Tatsuya Onishi
  • Patent number: 11375964
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present disclosure, in order to raise the reproducibility of a reconstructed tomographic image without increasing a calculation load, any one among two directions adjacent to two boundaries that demarcate an angular scan range is offset from any one among coordinate axes of a two-dimensional tomographic image of N pixels×N pixels, and the angle of the offset is made to be above 0 degrees and under 90 degrees or above ?90 degrees and under 0 degrees. A detection device, which includes N detection elements, performs detection in each detection direction, and a first vector having N×N elements is obtained from a detection signal obtained by the detection device in a detection operation. A discrete Inverse Radon transform matrix is applied to the first vector to obtain a second vector having N×N elements. The second vector is de-vectorized to obtain image data for a two-dimensional tomographic image of N pixels×N pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: RIKEN, Nissan Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Kanda, Takaoki Takanashi
  • Patent number: 11373778
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an automated high-speed X-ray inspection tool may emit, by an X-ray source, an X-ray beam to an object of interest with a portion of the X-ray beam penetrating through the object of interest. The automated high-speed X-ray inspection tool may capture, by an X-ray sensor, one or more X-ray images of the object of interest based on the portion of the X-ray beam that penetrates through the object of interest. Each of the X-ray images may be captured with a field of view of at least 12 million pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Bruker Nano, Inc.
    Inventor: David Lewis Adler
  • Patent number: 11367185
    Abstract: A fully image-based framework for CT image, or other medical image, quality evaluation and virtual clinical trial using deep-learning techniques is provided. This framework includes deep learning-based noise insertion, lesion insertion, and model observer, which enable efficient, objective, and quantitative image quality evaluation and virtual clinical trial directly performed on patient images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Lifeng Yu, Hao Gong, Shuai Leng, Cynthia H. McCollough
  • Patent number: 11354832
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions readable and executable by an imaging workstation (14) including at least one electronic processor (16) to perform a dataset generation method (100) operating on emission imaging data acquired of a patient for one or more axial frames at a corresponding one or more bed positions, the method comprising: (a) identifying a frame of interest from the one or more axial frames; (b) generating simulated lesion data by simulating emission imaging data for the frame of interest of at least one simulated lesion placed in the frame of interest; (c) generating simulated frame emission imaging data by simulating emission imaging data for the frame of interest of the patient; (d) determining a normalization factor comprising a ratio of the value of a quantitative metric for the simulated patient data and the value of the quantitative metric for the emission imaging data acquired of the same patient for the frame of interest; and (e) generating a hybrid data set
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Chuanyong Bai, Andriy Andreyev, Xiyun Song, Jinghan Ye, Bin Zhang, Shekhar Dwivedi, Yanfei Mao, Zhiqiang Hu
  • Patent number: 11346660
    Abstract: A calibration method of an X-ray measuring device includes: a front-stage feature position calculation step of parallelly moving spheres disposed in N places a plurality of times, and identifying centroid positions ImPos(1 to Q)_Dis(1 to M)_Sphr_(1 to N) of projected images of the spheres in the N places; an individual matrix calculation step of calculating an individual projection matrix PPj (j=1 to Q) for each of the spheres; an individual position calculation step of calculating moving positions Xb of the spheres on the basis of the individual projection matrix PPj (j=1 to Q); a coordinate integration step of calculating specific relative position intervals X(1 to N) of the spheres; a rear-stage feature position calculation step; a transformation matrix calculation step of calculating a projective transformation matrix Hk (k=1 to Q); a rotation detection step; a position calculation step; and a center position calculation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Kon, Hiromu Maie, Seiji Sasaki, Jyota Miyakura
  • Patent number: 11327198
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of CT detection, in particular to a CT inspection system and a CT imaging method. The CT inspection system provided by the present disclosure includes a scanning device and an imaging device, wherein the scanning device having a radioactive source device and a detection device is configured to rotate at a nonuniform speed in at least partial process of scanning an object to be detected; and the imaging device generates a CT image based on effective detection data, wherein the effective detection data refer to data acquired each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle. In the present disclosure, the imaging device of the CT inspection system generates a CT image based on data acquired each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle, which, compared with traditional image collection solutions, can effectively reduce image deformation and improve accuracy of detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Xiulin Ni, Jianmin Li, Haitian Tan, Yulan Li, Weifeng Yu, Yuanjing Li, Hejun Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Chunguang Zong, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262318
    Abstract: An adaptor for a turntable of a CT system includes at least two object turntables for at least two objects and a rotation transmission element configured to be coupled to the turntable of the CT system. The two object turntables are coupled to each other using a coupler such that the at least two object turntables rotate simultaneously. The rotation transmission element is coupled to the coupler and configured to transmit a rotation from the turntable of the CT system to the coupler in order to drive the at least two object turntables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Salamon, Florian Gabsteiger, Carina Kreutner, Johannes Leisner
  • Patent number: 11249034
    Abstract: There is provided an X-ray Talbot capturing apparatus that emits X-rays in a cone beam shape from an X-ray generator, capable of producing gratings as easily as possible and of minimizing a production cost. An X-ray Talbot capturing apparatus 1 includes a G1 grating that is a phase grating, a G2 grating that is an absorption grating, a X-ray generator 11 that emits the X-rays, and an X-ray detector that includes a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed conversion elements and captures a moire image Mo formed on the G2 grating. The G2 grating is located at a position where a self-image of the G1 grating 14 is formed, and both of the G1 grating and the G2 grating are in a plane shape. Slits of the G1 grating are formed to be perpendicular to a surface direction of a substrate on which the grating is formed, whereas slits of the G2 grating are formed to be parallel with the X-rays emitted in the cone beam shape from a focus F of the X-ray generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Junko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11226296
    Abstract: A tunnel computerised tomographic scanner comprising a rotor (3), an X-ray emitter (7) mounted on the rotor (3), an X-ray detector (8) mounted on the rotor (3), on the opposite side of a detecting zone (4), the X-ray detector (8) comprising a scintillator (9) which has at least one emission face (10) from which the scintillator (9) emits light in the visible spectrum when it is struck by X-rays, and a plurality of video cameras (12) which are positioned in such a way that each of them frames at least one portion of the scintillator (9), for acquiring one after another second images, in the visible spectrum, of the respective portion of the scintillator (9), wherein, according to the method, at least two separate video cameras (12) substantially frame each zone of the emission face (10), and an electronic processing unit is programmed to combine all of the second images obtained by the video cameras (12) and to obtain a first image of the emission face (10), to be used for the tomographic reconstruction of an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MICROTEC S.R.L.
    Inventors: Marco Boschetti, Enrico Ursella
  • Patent number: 11219425
    Abstract: The invention relates to off-center detector X-ray tomography reconstruction of an image of an object on the basis of projection data acquired during a rotation of an X-ray source and the off-center detector around the object in two rotational passes of less than 360°, wherein a focus point of the X-ray beam travels along largely overlapping arcs (401, 402) in the two rotational passes, the off-center detector being positioned asymmetrically with respect to a central of the X-ray beam and a direction of a detector offset being reversed between the passes. According to the invention, redundancy weighting of the projection data with respect to a redundant acquisition of projection values during each of the rotational passes is made using a redundancy weighting function determined on the basis of a union of the arcs (401, 402).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., ION BEAM APPLICATIONS S.A.
    Inventor: Dirk Schäfer
  • Patent number: 11215718
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are described for setting a sampling frequency for a radiation imaging system. The radiation imaging system comprises a rotating gantry configured to rotate a radiation source and a detector array about an object to generate an image(s) of the object. A data acquisition system is configured to sample the detector array as views. One or more flag structures are arranged according to a partial arc segment (e.g., a structure less than a full 360 degree circle). One or more sensors are disposed on one of the rotating gantry or a stationary support about which the rotating gantry rotates. When a sensor encounters a flag structure, a current rotational speed of the rotating gantry is determined. A clock frequency is updated based upon the current rotational speed to establish a sampling frequency for the data acquisition system for sampling the detector array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Analogic Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Richard Splinter, Steven Dana Weed, David Gino Vacca, Sevag Minas Zoboyan
  • Patent number: 11204432
    Abstract: A photon counting device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert input light to charge, and an amplifier configured to amplify the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element and convert the charge to a voltage, an A/D converter configured to convert the voltages output from the amplifiers of the plurality of pixels to digital values; and a conversion unit configured to convert the digital value output from the A/D converter to the number of photons by referring to reference data, for each of the plurality of pixels, and the reference data is created based on a gain and an offset value for each of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tadashi Maruno, Eiji Toda, Mao Nakajima, Teruo Takahashi, Takafumi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11197643
    Abstract: A detector system for an x-ray imaging device includes a detector chassis, a plurality of sub-assemblies mounted to the detector chassis and within an interior housing of the chassis, the sub-assemblies defining a detector surface, where each sub-assembly includes a thermally-conductive support mounted to the detector chassis, a detector module having an array of x-ray sensitive detector elements mounted to a first surface of the support, an electronics board mounted to a second surface of the support opposite the first surface, at least one electrical connector that connects the detector module to the electronics board, where the electronics board provides power to the detector module and receives digital x-ray image data from the detector module via the at least one electrical connector. Further embodiments include x-ray imaging systems, external beam radiation treatment systems having an integrated x-ray imaging system, and methods therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Mobius Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene A. Gregerson, Russell Stanton
  • Patent number: 11187584
    Abstract: A measurement system includes an optical source (e.g., laser) to irradiate a sample (e.g., a cell); a solid-state photon detector (SSPD) to receive resultant light from the sample; and a photon counter to count photons received by the SSPD. The photon counter can include a differentiator to provide a differentiated photon signal and a crossing detector configured to count photons based on a number of times the differentiated photon signal crosses a predetermined threshold level. In some examples, a pulse detector can provide a pulse-width signal from the SSPD output photon signal, and a pulse counter can count based on both a number of pulses and widths of the pulses. The SSPD can include a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array or a solid-state photomultiplier. Some examples use the measurement system to measure samples in fluids, e.g., in flow cytometers or multi-well plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CAPTL LLC
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamamoto, Keegan Hernandez, J. Paul Robinson
  • Patent number: 11185312
    Abstract: An imaging conditions acquisition unit acquires imaging conditions relevant to the positioning of an irradiation device and a radiation detector for acquiring a medical image. An imaging control unit controls the irradiation device and the like so as to acquire a pre-shot image or the medical image of the subject. A correction amount calculation unit calculates the correction amount of the imaging conditions based on the pre-shot image. A notification unit sends notification of the correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Keigo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11170541
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a depth map creating unit that creates, on the basis of a two-dimensional radiation image and a plurality of tomographic images for the same subject, a plurality of depth maps in which each position on the two-dimensional radiation image and depth information indicating a depth directional position of a tomographic plane corresponding to each position are associated with each other while changing a correspondence relationship between each position on the two-dimensional radiation image and the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11166685
    Abstract: A radiation detector according to an embodiment includes a plurality of radiation detector modules and a fixing frame. When a radiation detector module is attached to the fixing frame, a guiding part with a groove shape formed at an end of a support member of the radiation detector module on a side of the fixing frame is fitted to a guiding pin provided to an end of the fixing frame, so that the radiation detector module is positioned in a radiation irradiation direction while a movement thereof in a channel direction and a row direction is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Takayasu, Minoru Horinouchi, Akira Nishijima
  • Patent number: 11154260
    Abstract: An apparatus for computed tomography imaging of a patient has a rotatable mount that is actuable to rotate about a rotation axis and that supports, at opposite ends an x-ray source and an x-ray detector, wherein the x-ray source is disposed to direct a radiation beam through the patient and toward the detector. A patient positioning apparatus positions the patient relative to the rotation axis. A control logic processor controls rotation of the rotatable mount and acquires image data for the patient at each of a number of angular positions about the rotation axis. A collimator is disposed in front of the x-ray source and controlled by the control logic processor to center the radiation beam, at each of the plurality of angular positions, on a region of interest that is spaced apart from the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: TROPHY
    Inventors: Sylvie M. Bothorel, Vincent Loustauneau, Colombe Maury, Jean-Marc Inglese
  • Patent number: 11141128
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed may be used to detect and correct channel gain errors resulting from X-ray focal spot mis-alignment during the course of a scan. One benefit of the present invention relative to conventional techniques is that additional hardware is not required for detection of focal spot drift. Instead, the static mis-alignment of each blade is taken into account as part of estimating and correcting X-ray focal spot drift or mis-alignment. In this manner, the risk of image artefacts due to focal spot motion is reduced and the need for costly hardware solutions to detect focal spot motion is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Biju Jacob, Mingye Wu, Mark Allen Adamak
  • Patent number: 11131780
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation detector (1), an imaging system and a related method for radiation detection. The detector comprises a direct conversion material (2) for converting x-ray and/or gamma radiation into electron-hole pairs by direct photon-matter interaction. The detector comprises an anode (3) and a cathode (4) arranged on opposite sides of the direct conversion material (2) such that the electrons and holes can respectively be collected by the anode and cathode. The cathode is substantially transparent to infrared radiation. The detector comprises a light guide layer (5) on the cathode at a side of the cathode that is opposite of the direct conversion material, in which the light guide layer is adapted for distributing infrared radiation over the direct conversion material. The detector comprises a reflector layer (6) arranged on the light guide layer (5) at a side opposite of the cathode, in which the reflector layer is adapted for substantially reflecting infrared radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Roger Steadman Booker, Christoph Herrmann
  • Patent number: 11116461
    Abstract: An imaging system comprises an adaptor plate configured to be removably coupled to a gantry structure of the imaging system, a plurality of detectors configured to be removably coupled to the adaptor plate, and one or more conduits for a fluid to flow through, wherein the fluid is used to cool the imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Raed Khamaisi, Asaf Shtern
  • Patent number: 11116997
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a radiotherapeutic device. The radiotherapeutic device comprises a gantry, at least two therapeutic heads, a first detector and a slide driving unit. The slide driving unit comprises a sliding guide rail, a driving apparatus and a movable block. The first detector is fixed on the movable block and is driven by the movable block via the driving apparatus to slide along the sliding guide rail to different positions to receive radiation beams emitted by therapeutic heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Our United Corporation
    Inventors: Fangzheng Chen, Haifeng Liu