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7623905 |
Method for production of computer-tomographic scans during an intervention
A method is disclosed for production of computer-tomographic scans via a CT system of a patient during an intervention with an instrument. An X-ray tube is moved on a rotation plane around the...
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7623902 |
System and methods for improved access to vertebral bodies for kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty, vertebral body biopsy or screw placement
A method of determining the size and placement of screws in pedicles in a selected spinal area comprising, hollowing out the vertebra in a three-dimensional image of the spine with cortical wall...
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7623623 |
Non-collocated imaging and treatment in image-guided radiation treatment systems
An image-guided radiation treatment system includes a robotic positioning system and a tracking system that enables a radiation target to be imaged and aligned at one location and treated at...
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7619374 |
Radiotherapy system for performing radiotherapy with presice irradiation
A radiotherapy system includes: a waveguide, an adjustable waveguide, and a non-reciprocal circuit element. The waveguide transmits a high-frequency wave from a high-frequency power source to an...
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7616983 |
Device for guiding a magnetic element
A device for guiding a magnetic element has magnet holders that can be pivoted about vertical axes from an operating position to a rest position, such that a patient to be examined can be examined...
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7613501 |
System, tracker, and program product to facilitate and verify proper target alignment for radiation delivery, and related methods
A system, tracker, program product, and methods to facilitate and verify proper target alignment for radiation delivery are provided. The system includes a radiation delivery apparatus having a...
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7613500 |
Methods and apparatus for assisting cardiac resynchronization therapy
A method for assisting the planning of an interventional biventricular pacing procedure includes segmenting an image dataset of a heart of a patient to extract a surface of a left ventricle (LV)...
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7613499 |
Method and system for concurrent localization and display of a surgical catheter and local electrophysiological potential curves
A method for providing measuring data for the precise local positioning of an ablation catheter comprises the recording of electrophysiological potential curves in a plurality of positions of the...
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7613492 |
Apparatus for aligning an object being scanned in multi-modality systems
A method of examining a patient is provided. The method includes aligning a patient table with a first examination axis, and rotating the patient table around a substantially fixed pivot axis from...
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7610079 |
Shock wave imaging system
A system or apparatus 2 for visually displaying and treating a treatment volume 100 located in a human or animal body 1 is disclosed wherein the treatment volume 100 is detected by a...
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7609808 |
Application specific emission and transmission tomography
A compact and mobile gantry for 3-dimensional Application Specific Emission and/or Transmission Tomography (ASETT) imaging of the breast in single photon or coincidence emission modes, and single...
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7607440 |
Methods and apparatus for surgical planning
Methods and apparatus for enhancing surgical planning provide enhanced planning of entry port placement and/or robot position for laparoscopic, robotic, and other minimally invasive surgery....
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7603165 |
Method for acquiring PET and CT images
A combined PET and X-Ray CT tomograph for acquiring CT and PET images sequentially in a single device, overcoming alignment problems due to internal organ movement, variations in scanner bed...
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7603164 |
Composite system for radiation therapy
A composite system for radiation therapy includes a CT scanner for checking the position of an affected portion of a patient to be irradiated, an irradiation apparatus for disposing, on the basis...
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7603163 |
Targeting system and method of targeting
A targeting system, which provides an adjustable optical assembly, for use with imaging systems having a penetrating beam source, a penetrating beam receiver. The optical assembly has a targeting...
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7587234 |
Method and apparatus for computer modified magnetic resonance imaging
A device is presented including a medical device adapted to be inserted in an anatomy. The medical device has many target markers. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system will not detect or will...
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7587075 |
Virtual cosmetic and reconstructive surgery systems, methods, and apparatuses
A method for producing a virtual forecasted model of a breast augmentation subject, comprising, receiving a preoperative subject's scanned image, wherein the scanned image comprises a three...
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7576344 |
Target positioner
A target positioner including a radiation source disposed in a source housing, the radiation source adapted to emit a radiation beam, a target holder adapted to be attached to and generally...
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7574251 |
Method and system for adapting a radiation therapy treatment plan based on a biological model
A system and method of adapting a radiation therapy treatment plan. The method includes the acts of preparing a treatment plan for a patient, acquiring images of the patient, performing deformable...
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7574250 |
Image shifting apparatus and method for a telerobotic system
An input device of a teleoperator system can be operatively associated with an image of a surgical worksite. Movement of the image may correspond to movement of the input device so that the...
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7574249 |
Device-less gating of physiological movement for improved image detection
A method of imaging an object using a medical imaging system is provided. The imaging method acquires a stream of sinogram data. Changes in the stream of sinogram data corresponding to movement of...
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7567834 |
Method and apparatus for implantation between two vertebral bodies
A method and system to assist in a planning and navigation of procedure. Generally, the system allows for image acquisition of a selected area of the anatomy. The images may then be used to mark...
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7567694 |
Method of placing constraints on a deformation map and system for implementing same
A system and method of placing constraints on a deformation map. The method includes the acts of generating a deformation map between two images, identifying a defined structure in one of the...
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7565190 |
Cardiac CT system and method for planning atrial fibrillation intervention
A method for planning atrial fibrillation (AF) intervention for a patient includes obtaining acquisition data from a medical imaging system, and generating a 3D model of the left atrium and...
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7559931 |
Surgical orientation system and method
A system and method for detecting and measuring changes in angular position with respect to a reference plane is useful in surgical procedures for orienting various instruments, prosthesis, and...
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7558439 |
Motion artifact correction of tomographical images
method A first image of a moving object is acquired by of a first imaging method, e.g by PET or SPECT imaging. The first image contains artifacts caused by object motion. From two further images...
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7544171 |
Methods for promoting nerve regeneration and neuronal growth and elongation
A method of enhancing the regeneration of injured nerves has the step of administering an effective exposure of pressure pulses or acoustic shock waves in a pulse or wave pattern to the zone of...
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7537572 |
Treatment or pre-treatment for radiation/chemical exposure
A method of treatment for a tissue organ or entire body of a patient prior to or after exposure to chemicals or radiation or both comprises the steps of activating an acoustic shock wave generator...
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7531818 |
Multiple room radiation treatment system
The present invention refers to a radiation system ( 1 ) comprising an excentric gantry ( 100 ) arranged in connection with multiple treatment rooms ( 61 - 68 ) separated by radiation-shielding...
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7531810 |
Integrated half-beam profile measurement and polar profile for circular radiation field symmetry assessment
A method for routine monitoring and quality assurance of field asymmetry of high energy circular radiation beam producing equipment. The quality assurance process of field symmetry for devices such...
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7522952 |
Combined positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance tomography unit
A combined PET/MRI tomography unit has a PET unit with a unit part assigned to the examination space, and a first evaluation unit for evaluating the PET electric signals. The unit part has a gamma...
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7519415 |
Method and apparatus for image support of an operative procedure implemented with a medical instrument
In a method and apparatus for image support of an operative procedure implemented with a medical instrument, a two-dimensional x-ray image of a volume region to be treated is generated and stored...
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7508388 |
Method for extending the display of a 2D image of an object region
In a method to extend the display range of 2D image recordings of an object region, particularly in medical applications, first 2D or 3D image data are acquired from a larger object region, and at...
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7505809 |
Method and system for registering a first image with a second image relative to the body of a patient
A system including a first medical positioning system for detecting a first position and orientation of the body of a patient, a second medical positioning system for detecting a second position...
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7496398 |
Spatially correlated x-ray and ultrasound mammographic imaging systems and method
The present invention provides for x-ray imaging and ultrasound imaging of a body region of interest in a spatially correlatable manner. The resultant x-ray and ultrasound images may be...
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7493155 |
Non-invasive medical treatment installation
A non-invasive medical treatment installation has a therapy C-arm mounted on a base, and defining an isocenter. A therapy apparatus having a focus is mounted at the free end of a carrier arm, that...
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7493153 |
Augmented reality system controlled by probe position
A guide system for use by a user who performs an operation in a defined three-dimensional region is disclosed, the system including a data processing apparatus for generating images of the subject...
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7491198 |
Computer enhanced surgical navigation imaging system (camera probe)
A system and method for navigation within a surgical field are presented. In exemplary embodiments according to the present invention a micro-camera can be provided in a hand-held navigation probe...
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7486984 |
System and method for monochromatic x-ray beam therapy
In embodiments of the invention, a radiosensitizer or other agent is relatively uniformly accumulated in the cells of a tumor. An external monochromatic x-ray beam, which is tuned to a...
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7486983 |
Verification of radiation beam characteristics
A system to acquire a first image of a radiation field, the radiation field produced by a radiation beam, and to determine a second image based on the first image and based on a reference image of...
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7486072 |
Parallel multiple coil MR scanning method and MRI apparatus with flow compensation in a calibration scan including a calibration of a coil sensitivity of each coil
The present invention provides an MR scanning method and an MRI apparatus for decreasing the artifacts while improving the signal from within the blood vessels in the parallel imaging. In the...
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7477927 |
System and method for laser based computed tomography and magnetic resonance registration
A method and system for laser based instrument registration. The system includes an operating table coupled with a robot holding an instrument, and CT scanner. The CT scanner has first and second...
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7477925 |
Erythema measuring device and method
An erythema meter includes a probe, a light source of one or more specific probing and reference wavelengths, and an acoustic detector which determines the level of erythema present in the dental...
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7453076 |
Bi-polar treatment facility for treating target cells with both positive and negative ions
A system for treating target cells with both positive and negative ions comprises a bi-polar beam delivery system configured to create and deliver both positive ion beams and negative ion beams....
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7447345 |
System and method for generating PET-CT images
The invention relates to a system and method for executing a scanning procedure comprising the steps of generating CT image data for a scan, generating CT attenuation correction data for the scan,...
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7444178 |
Positional marker system with point light sources
A positional marker system is disclosed. The positional marker system includes at least one light-emitting or light-reflecting marker that can be positionally detected by an optical tracking...
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7424139 |
Virtual cosmetic and reconstructive systems, methods, and apparatuses
The virtual surgery systems, methods, and apparatuses that provide for the prediction, evaluation, and validation of various cosmetic and reconstructive surgical procedures. The virtual surgery...
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7423429 |
Apparatus and associated method that integrate the modalities of diagnosis and therapy to treat, in principle, pathologies generically identified as Cancer and HIV/AIDS
Diagnostic and Therapy apparatus and methods use non-ionizing radiations which are based on integration of nuclear magnetic resonance and radiation manipulation. Quantitative diagnostics integrate...
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7415302 |
Method and system for leading macromolecule substances into living target cells
A method and system for leading macromolecule substances into target cells includes an image picking unit, an image merging unit, an injection unit, and an energy conversion module. The image...
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7412280 |
Systems and methods for analyzing an abnormality of an object
In one embodiment, a method for analyzing at least one abnormality of an object is described. The method includes obtaining a first image containing an abnormality using a first modality, obtaining...
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