Patent classifications
A61B6/486
Temporal Data Generation With Scattered X-Ray Radiation
Aspects of the disclosure provide for an x-ray detection device for detecting radiation scattered off of a target during an imaging procedure and generating temporal data indicating the time of occurrence of a pulse of radiation emitted towards the target. The temporal data can be sent to a host device and used to timestamp images generated from the pulses of radiation. The x-ray detection device is portable and can be installed in a catheterization laboratory or imaging environment to detect the occurrence of radiation, without occluding or partially occluding the beam source. Aspects of the disclosure also provide for a system for receiving temporal data generated by the x-ray detection device, and accurately tagging received image frames based on the temporal data.
Systems and methods for positron emission tomography image reconstruction
Methods and systems for PET image reconstruction are provided. A method may include obtaining an image sequence associated with a subject. The image sequence may include one or more images generated via scanning the subject at one or more consecutive time periods. The method may also include obtaining a target machine learning model. The method may further include generating at least one target image using the target machine learning model based on the image sequence. The at least one target image may present a dynamic parameter associated with the subject. The target machine learning model may provide a mapping between the image sequence and the at least one target image.
DEVICE FOR USE IN DYNAMIC RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE ACQUISITION
A device for use with a four-dimensional radiological imaging modality includes: a base structure and a table slidably mounted with respect to one another. The base structure is at one end provided with a platform at an angle relative to the table, and a counteracting structure is arranged to apply to the table a load exerting force in a direction towards the one end provided with the platform from the opposite end of the base structure or vice versa.
MICROPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS
There is provided a microparticle composition suitable for molecular imaging, the composition comprising microparticles, wherein the microparticles comprise: a core microparticle structure having a central area and a shell, and wherein the core microparticle structure comprises (i) a phosphatidylcholine lipid: (ii) a phosphatidylethanolamine lipid comprising at least one maleimide moiety; and (iii) an alkoxylated fatty acid.
STORAGE MEDIUM, DYNAMIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causes a computer to perform an analysis process based on a radiation moving image in which a dynamic state of a specific site of a subject is captured. The program includes the analysis process in which, an analysis is performed based on the radiation moving image wherein when a plane in which the specific site is movable is to be a movable plane, the radiation moving image is obtained by irradiating radiation on the specific site in a state in which the radiation is orthogonal to the movable plane.
COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR EVALUATING IMAGE DATA OF A PATIENT, INTERVENTION ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA CARRIER
A method for evaluating image data of a patient showing a target region to be treated with an embolizing agent includes providing a three-dimensional time-resolved image data set of a vascular system portion of the patient. A structural parameter that describes a geometry of at least the vascular system portion and/or a basic information item including dynamic parameters that describe hemodynamics in the vascular system portion is established from the image data set by an analysis algorithm. An embolization information item describing a plurality of embolizing agents that are to be used is provided. An actuation information item describing a suitable composition of the plurality of embolizing agents, for an intervention facility used for carrying out the treatment is established by an establishing algorithm that uses the basic information item and the embolization information item, and the actuation information item is provided to the intervention facility.
SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MULTIPLE EXPOSURES IMAGING
Systems, methods, and devices for capturing a single image with multiple exposures is provided. An imaging device may be provided comprising a source configured to emit a wave for a time period and a detector configured to receive a signal indicative of the wave. A wave may be emitted for a time period and a signal may be received indicative of the emitted wave. A first image dataset may be saved with a first timestamp referencing a first time within the time period. A second image dataset may be saved with a second timestamp referencing a second time within the time period. The second time may occur after the first time.
IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
An image processing apparatus processes a dynamic image including a plurality of frames obtained from a radiographic imaging apparatus performing radiographic dynamic imaging, and includes a hardware processor that performs a process of reducing an unexpected image of a structural object other than a subject, when the structural object is unexpectedly captured in the dynamic image including the plurality of frames obtained by the dynamic imaging.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
A nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain nuclear medicine data; to time-divide the nuclear medicine data into at least first nuclear medicine data and second nuclear medicine data; and to identify a biological accumulation region, on the basis of a temporal change in data values included in the first nuclear medicine data and the second nuclear medicine data.
Determination of dynamic DRRs
A computer implemented method for determining a two dimensional DRR referred to as dynamic DRR based on a 4D-CT, the 4D-CT describing a sequence of three dimensional medical computer tomographic images of an anatomical body part of a patient, the images being referred to as sequence CTs, the 4D-CT representing the anatomical body part at different points in time, the anatomical body part comprising at least one primary anatomical element and secondary anatomical elements, the computer implemented method comprising the following steps: acquiring the 4D-CT; acquiring a planning CT, the planning CT being a three dimensional image used for planning of a treatment of the patient, the planning CT being acquired based on at least one of the sequence CTs or independently from the 4D-CT, acquiring a three dimensional image, referred to as undynamic CT, from the 4D-CT, the undynamic CT comprising at least one first image element representing the at least one primary anatomical element and second image elements representing the secondary anatomical elements; acquiring at least one trajectory, referred to as primary trajectory, based on the 4D-CT, the at least one primary trajectory describing a path of the at least one first image element as a function of time; acquiring trajectories of the second image elements, referred to as secondary trajectories, based on the 4D-CT; for the image elements of the undynamic CT, determining trajectory similarity values based on the at least one primary trajectory and the secondary trajectories, the trajectory similarity values respectively describing a measure of similarity between a respective one of the secondary trajectories and the at least one primary trajectory; determining the dynamic DRR by using the determined trajectory similarity values, and, in case the planning CT is acquired independently from the 4D-CT, further using a transformation referred to as planning transformation from the undynamic CT to the planning CT, at least a part of image values of image elements of the dynamic DRR being determined by using the trajectory similarity values.