摘要:
Surgery is performed with a pulsed heat-producing device that selectively heats a region in a specific tissue within a patient destroying the tissue. The pulsed heat-producing device may be a coherent optical source that is guided by laser fiber to the tissue to be destroyed. In another embodiment, the pulsed heat-producing device is a focussed ultrasound transducer which concentrates ultrasonic energy at a focal point within the specific tissue. A magnetic resonance imaging system employing a real-time temperature-sensitive pulse sequence monitors the heated region of the tissue to provide temperature profiles allowing an operator to alter the position and size of the heated region.
摘要:
A three dimensional image of a human brain or other body structure is constructed using a single flow sensitive data array and a flow insensitive data array to generate the contrasts necessary to differentiate among stationary tissues and also between stationary tissues and flowing blood. A plurality of data points from this combined image data are identified to tissue types and used to segregate the remaining data by using a nearest neighbor process in which each data value takes the tissue type of its nearest neighbor data point.
摘要:
In a method and apparatus for detecting and displaying arbitrary interior surfaces of a three-dimensional body from a regular array of values of at least one physical property in the interior of the body, the physical property measurements are made with systems such as computerized tomographic x-ray imaging, or magnetic resonance imaging. A recursive algorithm starts with a seed voxel in the surface of interest and continues to all adjacent voxels having a common face which is penetrated by the surface of interest. The common surface penetrations are derived from a look-up table which lists the adjacent voxels having a common penetrated face for each voxel index. The voxel index, in turn, is the string of binary digits representing the voxel vertices whose vertex values exceed the surface value of the surface of interest. The resulting list of voxels can be processed by conventional processors to display the surface of interest with greatly reduced interference from nearby, closely intermingled surfaces with the same or similar surface values.
摘要:
A metod for providing a three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) flow-contrast angiograph of fluid flowing substantially only in a predetermined direction, with suppression of stationary material surrounding the fluid, uses the steps of: acquiring a first set of image data from NMR responses generated from a volume-to-be-imaged by a three-dimensional volume imaging sequence preceded by a saturation portion saturing nuclear spins in a volume adjacent to, and in the direction from which the desired flow will enter, the volume-to-be-imaged; acquiring a second set of image data from other NMR responses generated by the same volume imaging sequence, but devoid of any preceding saturating portion; and subtracting one of the first and second data sets from the other to generate a difference data set from which a final image is displayed. Advantageously, a 3DET volume imaging sequence is used, with bipolar flow-compensation used along both axes of flow encodation. The total first moment of all magnetic field gradient pulses, from volume selection tie to echo time, on each of the separate three Cartesian gradient axes, is nulled, with the total area (the amplitude-time integrated product) of the pulses being set substantially equal to zero alaong two of the three axes. The non-zero pulse area difference along the one selected non-readout axis is balanced by a rewind gardient pulse after completion of the response signal readout.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for displaying three dimensional surface images includes the utilization of a case table for rapid retrieval of surface approximation information. Eight cubically adjacent data points associated with a given voxel element are compared with a predetermined threshold value or range to generate an eight bit vector. This eight bit vector is employed to rapidly produce vector lists of approximating surfaces. A non-linear interpolation operation is performed so as to more closely approximate the desired surface and to provide more accurate representations of vectors normal to the desired surface. The accurate representation of these normal directions provides means for accurately representing shading information on a display screen. The method and apparatus of the present invention are particularly useful for the display of medical images both from X-ray generated data and from data generated from various other sources including magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography. The present invention provides a means for rapid generation of three dimensional images so as to enable interactive use by medical practitioners.
摘要:
A method for the fabrication of surface acoustic wave devices by the selective removal of one of the phases of a metallic eutectic, solidified as a thin film having a lamellar morphology, forms a first spaced array of metallic elements. Removal is by line-heater or laser beam. This then provides a self-aligned structure for the formation of a second array of metallic elements interdigitated with the elements of the first array.
摘要:
Arrays of substantially parallel metallic wires of micron and sub-micron dimensions are made by directionally solidifying the components of a eutectic alloy system as a thin film and subsequently removing at least one of the phases. The arrays are useful, for example, as conductors in microelectronic devices and as diffraction gratings for electromagnetic and ultrasonic waves.
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A body composed of a zirconium alloy is afforded enhanced corrosion resistance to a high pressure and high temperature steam environment by an integral surface region of .beta.-quenched zirconium formed in situ by laser beam scanning and afforded good mechanical and structural properties by the underlying bulk region whose metallurgical structure is selected to optimize these mechanical properties.
摘要:
A guard ring for processing a wafer of semiconductor material by thermal gradient zone melting has a beveled internal wall surface for supporting the wafer therein. The thickness of the guard ring is about twice the thickness of the wafer.
摘要:
A semiconductor magnetoresistor device embodies a plurality of spaced highly conductive planar metallic-like electrodes formed in situ by thermal gradient zone melting to maximize the increase in the current path in a magnetic field established in the device.