Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in magnetic resonance thermometry
    1.
    发明授权
    Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in magnetic resonance thermometry 有权
    在磁共振测温中校正测量伪像的技术

    公开(公告)号:US09541621B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-10

    申请号:US13733656

    申请日:2013-01-03

    摘要: Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in MR thermometry predict or anticipate movements of objects in or near an MR imaging region that may potentially affect a phase background and then acquire a library of reference phase images corresponding to different phase backgrounds that result from the predicted movements. For each phase image subsequently acquired, one reference phase image is selected from the library of reference phase images to serve as the baseline image for temperature measurement purposes. To avoid measurement artifacts that arise from phase wrapping, the phase shift associated with each phase image is calculated incrementally, that is, by accumulating phase increments from each pair of consecutively scanned phase images.

    摘要翻译: 用于校正MR测温中的测量伪影的技术预测或预测可能影响相位背景的MR成像区域内或附近的物体的运动,然后获取对应于由预测的运动产生的不同相位背景的参考相位图像库。 对于随后获取的每个相位图像,从参考相位图像库中选择一个参考相位图像,以作为温度测量目的的基线图像。 为了避免相位缠绕产生的测量伪影,逐渐计算与每个相位图像相关的相移,即通过从每对连续扫描的相位图像中累加相位增量来计算。

    Method and apparatus for processing, displaying and communicating images

    公开(公告)号:US06388654B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-14

    申请号:US09166211

    申请日:1998-10-02

    IPC分类号: G09G500

    摘要: The application discloses an apparatus and method of processing images, hand-drawn or written on a suitable Writing Surface, viewed by an Image Sensor such as a video camera, and captured by an image sensing circuit (i.e., frame grabber or similar) used for acquisition of image frames by a computer. More particularly, this invention discriminates among changes detected in these Viewed Images in order to identify and disregard non-informational, transient and/or redundant content. Removal of such content, a writer's arm for example, from the captured image facilitates isolating meaningful changes, specifically intentional new Writings and Erasures appearing on the Writing Surface. Preserving only meaningful changes on the surface promotes optimized: “video image” storage and compressed transmission of a subset of the visual data, when used in conjunction with digital computers at remote locations optionally equipped with projected image and/or conventional computer display systems. The invention provides for displaying a composite of the remote sites' changes, transmitted over conventional communications channels, omitting Local Markings where the display device is a projector. The preferred embodiment of the present invention is applied to remote presentation aids, in particular “whiteboards” such as those typically used in educational lectures and commercial sales and training settings, and in particular to remote whiteboards. As will become clear, however, the application of the present invention is not restricted to whiteboards exclusively, but can work with any Writing Surface suitable for image acquisition (e.g., flipcharts or paper on a desk). Receive-only sites may participate in the remote presentation without contributing Local Markings to the composite. The present invention is compatible with conventional software products which will carry audio and other data streams on the same channel as the compressed image signals.

    SIMULATION-BASED FOCUSED-ULTRASOUND TREATMENT PLANNING
    3.
    发明申请
    SIMULATION-BASED FOCUSED-ULTRASOUND TREATMENT PLANNING 审中-公开
    基于模拟的聚焦超声波治疗计划

    公开(公告)号:US20150359603A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-17

    申请号:US14763684

    申请日:2014-01-29

    IPC分类号: A61B19/00 A61N7/02

    摘要: A focused-ultrasound or other procedure for treating a target within a tissue region can be planned iteratively by creating a treatment plan specifying a treatment location pattern and stimuli applied thereto, simulating the treatment, computationally predicting an effect of the simulated treatment, comparing the predicted effect against one or more treatment constraints (such as efficacy and/or safety thresholds), and, if a constraint is violated, repeating the simulation for an adjusted treatment plan.

    摘要翻译: 可以通过创建指定治疗位置模式和施加到其上的刺激的治疗计划来迭代地计划用于治疗组织区域内的靶的聚焦超声或其它程序,模拟治疗,计算地预测模拟治疗的效果,比较预测 对于一个或多个治疗约束(例如功效和/或安全阈值)的效果,并且如果违反约束,则重复经调整的治疗计划的模拟。

    Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in magnetic resonance thermometry
    6.
    发明授权
    Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in magnetic resonance thermometry 有权
    在磁共振测温中校正测量伪像的技术

    公开(公告)号:US08368401B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-05

    申请号:US12615780

    申请日:2009-11-10

    IPC分类号: G01V3/00

    摘要: Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in MR thermometry predict or anticipate movements of objects in or near an MR imaging region that may potentially affect a phase background and then acquire a library of reference phase images corresponding to different phase backgrounds that result from the predicted movements. For each phase image subsequently acquired, one reference phase image is selected from the library of reference phase images to serve as the baseline image for temperature measurement purposes. To avoid measurement artifacts that arise from phase wrapping, the phase shift associated with each phase image is calculated incrementally, that is, by accumulating phase increments from each pair of consecutively scanned phase images.

    摘要翻译: 用于校正MR测温中的测量伪影的技术预测或预测可能影响相位背景的MR成像区域内或附近的物体的运动,然后获取对应于由预测的运动产生的不同相位背景的参考相位图像库。 对于随后获取的每个相位图像,从参考相位图像库中选择一个参考相位图像,以作为温度测量目的的基线图像。 为了避免相位缠绕产生的测量伪影,逐渐计算与每个相位图像相关的相移,即通过从每对连续扫描的相位图像中累加相位增量来计算。

    TECHNIQUES FOR CORRECTING MEASUREMENT ARTIFACTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE THERMOMETRY
    8.
    发明申请
    TECHNIQUES FOR CORRECTING MEASUREMENT ARTIFACTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE THERMOMETRY 有权
    用于校正磁共振热分析测量仪器的技术

    公开(公告)号:US20130119984A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-16

    申请号:US13733656

    申请日:2013-01-03

    IPC分类号: G01R33/48

    摘要: Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in MR thermometry predict or anticipate movements of objects in or near an MR imaging region that may potentially affect a phase background and then acquire a library of reference phase images corresponding to different phase backgrounds that result from the predicted movements. For each phase image subsequently acquired, one reference phase image is selected from the library of reference phase images to serve as the baseline image for temperature measurement purposes. To avoid measurement artifacts that arise from phase wrapping, the phase shift associated with each phase image is calculated incrementally, that is, by accumulating phase increments from each pair of consecutively scanned phase images.

    摘要翻译: 用于校正MR测温中的测量伪影的技术预测或预测可能影响相位背景的MR成像区域内或附近的物体的运动,然后获取对应于由预测的运动产生的不同相位背景的参考相位图像库。 对于随后获取的每个相位图像,从参考相位图像库中选择一个参考相位图像,以作为温度测量目的的基线图像。 为了避免相位缠绕产生的测量伪影,逐渐计算与每个相位图像相关的相移,即通过从每对连续扫描的相位图像中累加相位增量来计算。

    TECHNIQUES FOR CORRECTING MEASUREMENT ARTIFACTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE THERMOMETRY
    9.
    发明申请
    TECHNIQUES FOR CORRECTING MEASUREMENT ARTIFACTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE THERMOMETRY 有权
    用于校正磁共振热分析测量仪器的技术

    公开(公告)号:US20110109309A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-12

    申请号:US12615780

    申请日:2009-11-10

    IPC分类号: G01R33/48

    摘要: Techniques for correcting measurement artifacts in MR thermometry predict or anticipate movements of objects in or near an MR imaging region that may potentially affect a phase background and then acquire a library of reference phase images corresponding to different phase backgrounds that result from the predicted movements. For each phase image subsequently acquired, one reference phase image is selected from the library of reference phase images to serve as the baseline image for temperature measurement purposes. To avoid measurement artifacts that arise from phase wrapping, the phase shift associated with each phase image is calculated incrementally, that is, by accumulating phase increments from each pair of consecutively scanned phase images.

    摘要翻译: 用于校正MR测温中的测量伪影的技术预测或预测可能影响相位背景的MR成像区域内或附近的物体的运动,然后获取对应于由预测的运动产生的不同相位背景的参考相位图像库。 对于随后获取的每个相位图像,从参考相位图像库中选择一个参考相位图像,以作为温度测量目的的基线图像。 为了避免相位缠绕产生的测量伪影,逐渐计算与每个相位图像相关的相移,即通过从每对连续扫描的相位图像中累加相位增量来计算。