MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY AND BRACHYTHERAPY

    公开(公告)号:EP3055024B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-14

    申请号:EP14772349.8

    申请日:2014-09-25

    IPC分类号: A61N5/10 A61B90/00

    摘要: The invention provides for a medical instrument (400, 500, 600, 700) comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system (404) and an external beam radiotherapy system (402) for irradiating a target zone (438) of a subject with a beam (442) of ionizing radiation within the imaging zone. The medical instrument further comprises a processor (448) for controlling the medical instrument. Execution of instructions cause the processor to: acquire (100, 200) first magnetic resonance data (458); reconstruct (102, 202) a first magnetic resonance image (460) from the first magnetic resonance data; receive (104, 204) planning data (462), wherein the planning data specifies a spatially dependent radiation dose for the target zone; register (106, 206) the planning data to the first magnetic resonance image; and calculate (108, 208) an external beam dosage plan (468) and a brachytherapy dosage plan (468) using the spatially dependent radiation dose and the first magnetic resonance image.

    GRADIENT AMPLIFIER SYSTEM IN A MRI SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING CURRENT USING THE SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:EP3218732B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-31

    申请号:EP15793774.9

    申请日:2015-11-09

    发明人: LIN, Yingfeng

    IPC分类号: G01R33/385

    CPC分类号: G01R33/3852

    摘要: The present invention provides a gradient amplifier (300) for a magnetic resonance imaging system, comprising: a power amplifier (310) configured to supply a gradient coil current to a gradient coil (330); a passive filter (320) oupled to the power amplifier and configured to damp a harmonic component of the gradient coil current, wherein an oscillation current caused by oscillation of the passive filter (320) is present in the gradient coil current; and an active power filter coupled between the passive filter and the gradient coil and configured to generate a compensation current to compensate the oscillation current. Through incorporating an active power filter to compensate the oscillation current caused by the oscillation of the passive filter, the power consumption for attenuation of the oscillation current may be decreased prominently, the compensation result for the oscillation current may not be substantively affected by the variations of the gradient coil parameter, and reliability of the gradient amplifier is improved.

    POSITIONING OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING ANTENNA WITHIN THE HOMOGENEOUS FIELD ZONE

    公开(公告)号:EP3160339B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-22

    申请号:EP15731070.7

    申请日:2015-06-25

    IPC分类号: A61B5/055

    摘要: The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) comprising: a magnet (104) for generating a main magnetic field with a homogeneous field zone (108); an antenna (124, 900, 1000) with an imaging zone (126) that has a fixed geometric relationship with portion (119) of a subject (118); a radio frequency system (114, 116, 124) for generating a radio frequency pulse (602); a magnetic gradient field system (110, 112); and a patient support (120, 122) for automatically moving the antenna and the portion of the subject from outside of the homogeneous field zone to within the homogeneous field zone along a movement axis. Machine executable instructions (180, 182, 184, 186, 188) cause a processor (136) controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system to: move the antenna and the portion from outside of the homogeneous field zone to within the homogeneous field zone along the movement axis; control (402) the radio frequency system to repeatedly generate a radio frequency pulse; control (404) the magnetic gradient field system to generate a gradient magnetic field during movement of the subject support only along the movement axis; control (406) the radio frequency system to repeatedly measure the radio frequency signal from the portion of the subject using the antenna; determine (408) a current location (128) of the antenna or of the imaging zone using the radio frequency signal; and control (410) the patient support to decelerate and halt at a predetermined location (109) within the homogeneous field zone using the current location.

    AUTOMATED IMPEDANCE ADJUSTMENT OF A MULTICHANNEL RF COIL ASSEMBLY
    29.
    发明公开
    AUTOMATED IMPEDANCE ADJUSTMENT OF A MULTICHANNEL RF COIL ASSEMBLY 审中-公开
    多通道RF线圈组件的自动阻抗调整

    公开(公告)号:EP3248024A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-29

    申请号:EP16700051.2

    申请日:2016-01-06

    摘要: The present invention provides a multichannel radio frequency (RF) receive/transmit system (200) for use in an magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system (110), comprising a RF coil array (202) with multiple RF coil elements (204) for emission and reception of RF signals, whereby each RF coil element (204) is provided with tuning means (206), and a tuning/matching circuit (208) for comparing forward power provided to at least one of the RF coil elements (204) with reflected power at the respective RF coil element (204) of the at least one of the RF coil elements (204), and for tuning the at least one of the RF coil elements (204) based on a comparison of the forward power and the reflected power at least one of the RF coil elements (204). The present invention further provides a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system (110) comprising the above multichannel RF receive/transmit system (200). Still further, the present invention further provides methods for performing magnetic resonance (MR) imaging using the above MR imaging system (110).

    METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING A QUALITY RATING DATA FOR A MEDICAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM
    30.
    发明公开
    METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING A QUALITY RATING DATA FOR A MEDICAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM 审中-公开
    确定医疗数据采集系统的质量评估数据的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:EP3238062A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-01

    申请号:EP15816891.4

    申请日:2015-12-15

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00 G06Q10/00 G06F19/00

    摘要: A method and arrangement for determining a quality rating data (QRD) of a medical data acquisition system (MDAS). The method and arrangement comprise of receiving first data, which includes utilization errors occurred during performing a data acquisition procedure (DAP), by a data acquisition component of the MDAS, on a patient to acquire medical data. The method and arrangement further comprise generating second data as a function of the first data. The second data is indicative of categories of the utilization errors, wherein at least one utilization error is assigned to a corresponding category based on a predetermined parameter. The method and arrangement further comprise determining the QRD as a function of a total number of MDAS utilizations, a predetermined coefficient for the corresponding error category and a number of utilization errors in the corresponding error category.

    摘要翻译: 用于确定医疗数据采集系统(MDAS)的质量评定数据(QRD)的方法和装置。 该方法和装置包括接收第一数据,该第一数据包括MDAS的数据获取组件在执行数据获取程序(DAP)期间发生的利用误差,以获取医疗数据。 该方法和装置还包括根据第一数据生成第二数据。 第二数据指示使用错误的类别,其中基于预定参数将至少一个使用错误分配给对应类别。 该方法和装置进一步包括确定作为MDAS利用总数,相应错误类别的预定系数和相应错误类别中的利用错误数量的函数的QRD。