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7366559 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus and method for assessing whole body composition
A method is disclosed for measuring whole body composition. The method includes confining movement of the body to a selected volume, inducing a static magnetic field in the volume, inducing a...
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7361145 |
Block-switching in ultrasound imaging
Systems of generating and manipulating an ultrasound beam are disclosed. The system uses selective sets of ultrasound elements to generate an ultrasound beam, scanning the beam over a series of...
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7356172 |
Methods and systems for motion tracking
Systems and methods are described for tracking motion in a medical imaging system. The methods use landmark sets including hard landmarks and soft landmarks. The systems can include means for...
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7356367 |
Computer aided treatment planning and visualization with image registration and fusion
A computer based system and method of visualizing a region using multiple image data sets is provided. The method includes acquiring first volumetric image data of a region and acquiring at least...
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7353056 |
Optimized switching configurations for reconfigurable arrays of sensor elements
The reconfigurable ultrasound array disclosed herein is one that allows groups of subelements to be connected together dynamically so that the shape of the resulting element can be made to match...
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7349729 |
Magnetic resonance imaging of different chemical species in a system having magnetic field heterogeneities
A multi-point chemical species (e.g., water, fat) separation process which is compatible with rapid gradient echo imaging such as SSFP uses an iterative least squares method that decomposes water...
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7346382 |
Brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods
This document discusses, among other things, brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods, such as for deep brain stimulation (DBS) or other electrical stimulation. A model computes a...
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7346381 |
Method and apparatus for medical intervention procedure planning
An imaging system for use in medical intervention procedure planning includes a medical scanner system for generating a volume of cardiac image data, a data acquisition system for acquiring the...
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7346203 |
Methods and apparatus for processing image data to aid in detecting disease
A method for detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, and/or tracking of a disease includes providing analysis software configured to detect, quantify, stage, report, and/or track a disease...
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7346429 |
Mobile robot hybrid communication link
A mobile robot communication system includes a remote unit, a repeater module and a control station. A cable connects the repeater module to the control station. The remote unit has a wireless...
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7346383 |
Method for acquiring MRI data from variable fields of view during continuous table motion
MRA data is acquired from a large region of interest by translating the patient through the bore of the MRI system as a three-dimensional MRA data set are acquired. The pulse sequence is altered...
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7343190 |
System and method for assessing fetal abnormality based on landmarks
A method and system for assessing fetal abnormality based on landmarks. According to one embodiment, at least two coordinates are received for each of a plurality of points identifying a...
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7343194 |
Method and apparatus for performing neuroimaging
In one aspect, a restraining assembly for an awake animal within a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device is provided and includes a body restrainer having a first part and a second part that hold...
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7343189 |
Method and device for placing a patient repeatedly into the same relative position
The invention relates to a method for repositioning a patient in a diagnostic/therapeutic system, as well as to such a system, wherein a repeated, accurate repositioning is achieved by producing...
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7340291 |
Medical apparatus for tracking movement of a bone fragment in a displayed image
A medical apparatus has a data processing device for storing an image dataset of the body of a subject and a navigation system for determining the position of a medical instrument relative to the...
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7336989 |
System and method for quantitative or qualitative measurement of exogenous substances in tissue and other materials using laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy
Methods and systems for determination of one or more substances within a material are described. A flow of fluorescence-exciting/ablative energy (e.g., laser pulse(s), preferably in the ultraviolet...
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7336810 |
Skin evaluation method and image simulation method
A skin beauty evaluation method for imaging an object such as human face to obtain digital image data, extracting data on a mirror reflection light component of each pixel from the digital image...
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7336988 |
Multi-photon endoscopy
An apparatus includes an optical element, a GRIN lens, and a detector. The optical element has a first optical aperture. The GRIN lens has first and second ends. The first end of the GRIN lens is...
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7333845 |
Non-invasive imaging for determination of global tissue characteristics
Evaluating tissue characteristics including identification of injured tissue or alteration of the ratios of native tissue components such as shifting the amounts of normal myocytes and fibrotic...
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7333846 |
Method and apparatus for functional magnetic resonance imaging
In a method and a magnetic resonance apparatus for functional imaging, a number of images without and with a designational stimulation of the examination subject are sequentially registered in...
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7331967 |
Surgical instrument coupling mechanism
A surgical apparatus includes a slider mechanism, a surgical instrument coupled to the slider mechanism, and a single cable bundle that couples the slider mechanism and instrument to a driver. The...
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7330745 |
Living body photometric device
By making use of a set of loading of stimulation and no loading, variation signals in time of hemoglobin density at a plurality of measurement points of a subject attached of an optical measurement...
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7328054 |
Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging using encoded RF tagging pulses
A perfusion image is produced by acquiring a series of time course MR images from an imaging slice. During the acquisition spins flowing into the slice are repeatedly tagged with an RF tagging...
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7327306 |
RF system for tracking objects
A system for tracking an object in space for position, comprises a transponder device connectable to the object. The transponder device has one or several transponder aerial(s) and a transponder...
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7324843 |
Medical imaging device for use in a safety critical environment
The invention relates to a medical imaging device which includes a central control unit and a number of peripheral devices connected to the central control unit, one or more of the peripheral...
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7324842 |
Atlas and methods for segmentation and alignment of anatomical data
The present invention provides an atlas comprising values representative of magnetic resonance properties of a magnetic resonance (MR) scan and optionally, prior probability data relating to tissue...
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7319896 |
Capsule endoscope
A capsule endoscope is disclosed that includes a light source, an objective optical system that forms an image of an object that is illuminated by the light source, an image pickup device that...
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7319897 |
Localization device display method and apparatus
A localization device display method and apparatus for displaying different views, e.g., of different magnification, based on the proximity of the tip of a pointer tracked by the localization...
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7319782 |
Real-time imaging and analysis system
A sub-surface imaging system includes a broadband set of coherent beams with low divergence angle. It further includes an optical processing system which provides a probe and a reference beam,...
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7315757 |
Radioscopy using Kα gadolinium emission
The methods comprise detection of gadolinium in human tissues and organs by refining the position of malignant neoplasm and radiation treatment of the neoplasm in order to damage its cells. Refined...
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7315755 |
Systems and methods for communicating a protocol over a network
The present invention aims at permitting numerous user terminals to share protocols as common resources. A vendor terminal or user terminal registers a pair of a protocol and a medical image, which...
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7310547 |
Fluorescent fiberoptic probe for tissue health discrimination
A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the...
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7308297 |
Cardiac imaging system and method for quantification of desynchrony of ventricles for biventricular pacing
A method for quantifying cardiac desynchrony of the right and left ventricles includes obtaining cardiac acquisition data from a medical imaging system, and determining a movement profile from the...
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7308296 |
Precision illumination methods and systems
Methods and systems are provided for illuminating body part with LED system. A system includes a LED system, a medical instrument and a microprocessor. The LED system is adapted to generate a...
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7308295 |
Compilation of image information and mammography apparatus for performing biopsy
A mammography apparatus has a bracket having one of its arms fitted with an X-ray tube head. The X-ray tube head is formed of an X-ray tube for producing X-radiation and a collimator for...
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7302286 |
Method and apparatus for the three-dimensional presentation of an examination region of a patient in the form of a 3D reconstruction image
In a method and apparatus for the three-dimensional presentation of an examination region of a patient in the form of a 3D reconstruction image, a preoperatively acquired 3D image dataset of the...
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7301535 |
3D summary display for reporting of organ tumors
A computer-implemented method for visualizing a tumor in a volume data includes providing a plurality of tumors, detected and segmented from the volume data, storing locations of a plurality of...
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7302289 |
Readable probe array for in-vivo use
A disposable high density optically readable polydeoxynucleotide array with integral fluorescence excitation and fluorescence emission channels is described. The compact array size allows...
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7302287 |
Methods of detecting inflammation of an epithelium layer in the oral region with a probe using diffuse-reflectance spectroscopy
The invention provides a device and method for monitoring inflammation of the epithelium. The device consists of a head region, a handle region and an optical bundle. At least two of the optical...
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7298143 |
Reduction of susceptibility artifacts in subencoded single-shot magnetic resonance imaging
In a magnetic resonance imaging method an echo train is generated of successive magnetic resonance signals from an object to be examined. The magnetic resonance signals are received with a degree...
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7298881 |
Method, system, and computer software product for feature-based correlation of lesions from multiple images
A method, system, and computer software product for correlating medical images, comprising: obtaining first image data representative of a first medical image including a first abnormality;...
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7298819 |
Flexible treatment planning
A flexible treatment planning system configured to enable the user to utilize both forward planning and inverse planning techniques is described.
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7298879 |
Computer-aided detection of lung nodules
The invention relates to a method and a device for forming an image of body structures from an image data set, notably for highlighting potential nodular structures (KI; KA) in a lung. The problem...
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7295870 |
Method for the detection and automatic characterization of nodules in a tomographic image and a system of medical imaging by tomodensimetry
For the automatic detection and characterization of nodules in a tomographic image of an anatomical zone of a patient, the image is segmented for identifying therein a region of interest, and the...
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7294106 |
Cable-free medical detection and treatment system
A system for medical detection and treatment comprising a number of treatment and/or detection devices which exchange data with each other within the context of a medical treatment, in particular a...
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7289131 |
Method of rendering a graphics image
A method of rendering a graphics image in which rendering is only carried out in a region to be changed is disclosed. In a preferred form the image includes a plurality of objects and the method...
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7289839 |
Implantable marker with a leadless signal transmitter compatible for use in magnetic resonance devices
A leadless marker for localizing the position of a target within a patient. In one embodiment, the marker includes a casing, a resonating circuit, and a ferromagnetic element. The casing is...
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7289841 |
Method and apparatus for volumetric cardiac computed tomography imaging
In a diagnostic cardiac imaging session of a patient's heart using a computed tomography imaging scanner ( 10 ) and a cardiac cycle monitor ( 42 ), a diagnostic objective ( 100 ) is received....
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7289885 |
Dual purpose media drive providing control path to shared robotic device in automated data storage library
A dual purpose media drive exchanges data with removable media items. The drive includes at least one port to receive various control signals, including (1) data exchange commands directing the...
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7286877 |
Device programmer with enclosed imaging capability
Methods and electronic tools for imaging a chest region of a patient and communicating with a heart stimulation device used by the patient are disclosed. The electronic tool may include a...
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