MOBILE X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS
    91.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200330060A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US16644610

    申请日:2017-10-25

    Inventor: Hiroshi OKUMURA

    Abstract: When a control unit 30 detects that the apparatus becomes a traveling mode, the control unit 30 stops the power supply from a power supply circuit 52 to an opening-degree sensor S2 of a collimator leaf and a distance sensor S3 for detecting the distance between an X-ray tube 11 and a subject. On the other hand, for an acceleration sensor S1 for measuring the acceleration of a collimator 12, power supply from the power supply circuit 52 is stopped. When the control unit 30 determines that the apparatus is not in the traveling mode, electric power is supplied to all of the acceleration sensor S1, the opening-degree sensor S2, and the distance sensor S3. As a result, power consumption can be reduced by constantly supplying electric power to the acceleration sensor S1 required to perform constant monitoring, and in the traveling mode, power supply to the opening-degree sensor S2 and the distance sensor S3 used when performing X-ray imaging is stopped, so that power consumption can be reduced.

    X-Ray Reduction System
    93.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200315552A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16885373

    申请日:2020-05-28

    Abstract: An imaging system comprising a radiation source and radiation thereby; a detector having an input surface; a monitor configured to display images detected by the detector; a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for determining at least one Region of Interest (ROI) on a displayed image; and a collimator comprising means for modulating intensity of the radiation according to the at least one ROI; wherein the GUI comprises means for displaying detected images and means for determining shape and location of the at least one ROI.

    RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING DEVICE WITH ADVANCED SENSORS

    公开(公告)号:US20200305825A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16812761

    申请日:2020-03-09

    Abstract: A method and device for acquiring a radiological image of at least part of a patient placed in a gantry. The method includes emitting radiation from a source that passes through the at least part of the patient and receiving the radiation at a detector. In one embodiment the detector may include a single flat panel sensor having a radiation sensitive surface and operable in at least a flat panel mode and a linear sensor mode. The method also rotating the source and the detector around at least a part of the patient and moving the detector along guides of a panel motion system along an axis perpendicular to the central axis of propagation. Also, the method includes translating the source and the detector in a direction of movement substantially perpendicular to the central axis of propagation.

    X-ray imaging apparatus and control method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10772576B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-15

    申请号:US16037315

    申请日:2018-07-17

    Inventor: Jong Chul Han

    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus and control method thereof to prevent an error in the center of rotation of an X-ray source and degradation of resolution in a depth direction. The X-ray imaging apparatus comprises an X-ray source configured to irradiate X-rays, a sensor configured to obtain a distance between the X-ray source and a subject, a display configured to display a graphical object in association with the subject, an input configured to receive a designation of a region of interest of the subject through the graphical object, and a controller configured to obtain a thickness of the subject based on the distance between the X-ray source and the subject, determine a center of rotation to be set for the X-ray source based on the designation of the region of interest and the thickness of the subject, and control a movement of the X-ray source to set the center of rotation.

    A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING OPERATING PARAMETERS FOR 3D X RAY ACQUISITION

    公开(公告)号:US20200261039A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16652031

    申请日:2018-09-26

    Applicant: TROPHY

    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for obtaining operating parameters for an x-ray CBCT imaging apparatus in view of acquiring a set of data of a patient's maxillofacial region. The method comprises: —identifying a patient's maxillofacial first region of interest (ROI1), —determining a height of a horizontal plane of said patient's maxillofacial first region of interest (ROI1) when the patient is in an occlusion position or bites a patient positioning accessory, —acquiring through a slit-shaped collimator window a first set of data relative to said patient's maxillofacial first region of interest (ROI1) including the horizontal plane using x-ray CBCT imaging, —reconstructing an axial CBCT slice comprising the horizontal plane based on the first set of data relative to the reconstructed the patient's maxillofacial first region of interest (ROI1), —displaying the reconstructed axial CBCT slice of the patient's maxillofacial first region of interest (ROI1) from the acquired first set of data, —defining at least partially a second region of interest (ROI2) based on the displayed reconstructed axial CBCT slice of the patient's maxillofacial first region of interest (ROI1) and intersecting the latter, —obtaining operating parameters for an x-ray CBCT imaging apparatus based on at least the defined second region of interest (ROI2) in view of acquiring a second set of data including the defined second region of interest (ROI2).

    A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING OPERATING PARAMETERS FOR X RAY DATA ACQUISITION

    公开(公告)号:US20200261038A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16652030

    申请日:2018-09-26

    Applicant: TROPHY

    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for obtaining operating parameters for x-ray imaging a patients maxillofacial region, the method comprising: —identifying a patients maxillofacial first region of interest ROI1, —determining a height of a horizontal plane of said patients maxillofacial first region of interest ROI1 when the patient is in an occlusion position or bites a patient positioning accessory, said horizontal plane passing through the teeth and the bones of the jaw, —acquiring through a slit-shaped collimator window a first set of data relative to said patients maxillofacial first region of interest ROI1 including the horizontal plane using x-ray CBCT imaging and a first x-ray dose, said first set of data being suitable for generating a CBCT slice, —reconstructing the CBCT slice comprising the horizontal plane based on the first set of data relative to the patients maxillofacial first region of interest ROI1, —obtaining operating parameters for an x-ray imaging apparatus based on the reconstructed CBCT slice in view of acquiring a second set of data of a patients maxillofacial second region of interest ROI2 using a second x-ray dose, the first x-ray dose being lower than the second x-ray dose.

    COLLIMATORS FOR MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS AND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20200261034A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16792730

    申请日:2020-02-17

    Inventor: Zhiping Mu

    Abstract: According to various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a collimator for medical imaging. The collimator includes a perforated plate with a top surface and a bottom surface and holes distributed on the perforated plate. The holes are arranged in a plurality of groups. The plurality of groups forms a first coded aperture pattern and the holes in each of the plurality of groups form a second coded aperture pattern.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANATOMICALLY-SPECIFIED CONFORMATION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

    公开(公告)号:US20200253567A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-13

    申请号:US16557321

    申请日:2019-08-30

    Applicant: Malcova LLC

    Abstract: Described are anatomically specified conformation computed tomography (ASC-CT) systems, which are fully tomographic x-ray imaging systems configured to conform to the contour of the anatomy of interest and perform a near scatter-free image acquisition, thereby providing an enhanced contrast resolution in the reconstructed CT image volume. The apparatus comprises independently controlled, yet synchronized, x-ray generation and detection assemblies configured to perform a tomographic image acquisition. The method of image acquisition entails adjusting the layout of the x-ray panels within the detector assembly based on the shape of the anatomy, followed by capturing a collimated, narrow x-ray beam composed of primary photons while sweeping a circular trajectory around the anatomy placed in the field of view, resulting in a conforming sinogram of the anatomy.

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