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Creating a report from a radiological image using an electronic report template, the radiological image being an image of an anatomic region and the report template initially having empty fields includes displaying the radiological image on a screen of a workstation; providing a structural template, the structural template being a map of a reference region that corresponds to the anatomical region, t structural template identifying a plurality of anatomical landmarks each associated with corresponding landmark data; fitting the structural template with the radiological image such that the anatomical landmarks match corresponding anatomical landmarks of the radiological image; using the fitting to generate pathological data indicative of a pathology in one or more of the anatomical landmark and using the landmark data and pathological data to populate the empty field of the report template to thereby create the report.

The image displaying apparatus includes an image production apparatus, a first light conduction section and a second light conduction section. The first light conduction section includes a first light conduction plate which propagates part of incident light thereto by total reflection in the inside thereof and emits the propagated light, and a reflection type volume hologram diffraction grating disposed on the first light conduction plate. The second light conduction section includes a second light conduction plate, a first deflection section and a second deflection section.

A spinal fixation system that utilizes a composite rod to which polyaxial pedicle screw/tulip assemblies are secured, a screwdriver that permits independent threading of a guide member to the tulip and independent threading of the pedicle screw, together with interengaging conical surfaces that true the screwdriver with the pedicle screw. In preferred embodiments, the screwdriver includes an elongated drive shaft having a handle end for imparting rotation and a pedicle screw engaging end, a cylindrical guide member rotatably mounted about said drive shaft, a knob at one end of said guide member for rotating same and a threaded tulip engaging end at the other end thereof. A grip is preferably sleeved around the cylindrical drive member and is longitudinally movable between proximal and distal positions wherein its distal end uncovers and covers, respectively, the screw engaging unit.

Abstract A catheter placement device (see FIG. 2) includes a needle unit, which in an initial position is releasably engaged with a housing distal end and has a sharp needle passing through a catheter and protruding distally of it. There is also a telescopic protector including guard unit, which is sliding in a housing guide. After inserting the needle into patient's vein, operator one-handedly pushes the guard unit distally, thereby emplacing the catheter, displacing the protector into a full length position and locking therein, and passively disengaging the needle unit from the hosing by a trigger cam located on the guard unit. As a result, a retracting spring moves a needle into retracted position, wherein it is protected from any contact with personal. Then, operator disconnects the guard from the catheter, turns the housing and occludes the catheter entrance with a cap, which was detachably mounted on the housing.

A triggering system for a stroboscope system, comprising: a light source for projecting light on a vibratory object, such as vocal folds, an optical sensor for sensing light reflected or transmitted from said vibratory object in response to the projected light, in order to obtain vibratory information from the vibratory object; and a control arrangement connected to the optical sensor, for converting the vibratory information into triggering signals for the stroboscope system, said electronic control arrangement including a control output connectable to said stroboscope system, for outputting said triggering signals to said stroboscope system.

It is possible to carry out a highly accurate thin film machining by irradiation of an ion beam to a sample and a high-resolution STEM observation of the sample by irradiating an electron beam with a high throughput almost without moving the sample. The FIB irradiation system has an irradiation axis almost orthogonally intersecting an irradiation axis of the STEM observation electron beam irradiation system. The sample is arranged at the intersection point of the irradiation axes. The FIB machining plane of the sample is extracted from the thin film plane of the STEM observation sample. The transmitting/scattered beam detector are arranged at backward of the sample on the electron beam irradiation axis viewed from the electron beam irradiation direction.

An image display device includes an image generating device, a light guide unit which includes a light guide plate and first and second deflection sections, and a light beam extension device which extends light incident from the image generating device, along a Z direction when an incident direction of light incident on the light guide plate is set to be an X direction and a direction of propagation of light in the light guide plate is set to be a Y direction, and emits the light to the light guide unit, wherein the light beam extension device includes a first reflecting mirror on which light from the image generating device is incident, and a second reflecting mirror which emits light incident from the first reflecting mirror to the light guide unit, and each of the first and second reflecting mirrors has a light reflecting surface having a sawtooth-shaped cross-sectional shape.

An imaging optical system includes a liquid crystal lens including a first body formed of a substantially transparent birefringent liquid crystal member, a second body formed of a substantially transparent birefringent liquid crystal member, and two pairs of electrodes for adding an electric field or a magnetic field onto the first body and the second body. A rear face of the first body is aligned perpendicular to a front face of the second body, the first body and the second body have substantially symmetrical shape against a plane perpendicular to an optical axis and a plurality of optical elements are arranged front and after the liquid crystal lens. The liquid crystal lens has two distinct focal points. The system automatically switches between these focal points, based on the position of the lens with respect to the object being observed.

The invention provides in particular for an achromatic diffractive diffuser comprising a surface relief diffractive device arranged such that, under illumination by ambient light, the diffractive effect serves to provide a uniform achromatic diffuser reflection into a defined viewing zone for observation by an observer, and also such that the achromatic diffractive replay of the device has a non-symmetric distribution of diffractive light intensity between positive and negative diffractive order such that the diffractive efficiency in the desired diffractive order is enhanced over that of the undesired order to provide an enhanced brightness achromatic device.

A noninvasive image measuring method of measuring internal organ/tissue temperature using an MRI system. Temperature measurement insusceptible to body motion and spatial variation of magnetic field is realized by utilizing the position and size of a temperature change region as a priori information to determine the phase distribution of the complex magnetic resonance signal of water proton at a given temperature point and by subtracting the phase distribution before the temperature change estimated (self-referred) from the phase distribution in the peripheral region for each pixel of the image, thereby eliminating the subtraction process of image before and after temperature change. The precision of temperature measurement can be enhanced by estimating a complex curved surface formed of the peripheral region in each temperature change region of the real-part and imaginary-part images of the complex magnetic resonance signal, and calculating the phase difference between an actually measured complex signal distribution and the estimated complex signal distribution of the complex signal distribution for each pixel, thereby reducing the estimation error due to phase transition from −π to +π occurring in a phase distribution. Furthermore, temperature can be measured through optimal imaging following up body motion by using an optical positioning system in combination even if the part being measured is shifted.

The configuration and arrangement of the instrument greatly facilitate safe placement of the instrument and an associated endotracheal tube. The instrument includes a handle with an arm extending therefrom. The arm includes a base portion and a distal lifter portion preferably having an angle between 5° and 85°, inclusive, and the lifter is sized and shaped to engage or lift the patient's epiglottis, thereby to expose the glottis. In a preferred embodiment, the base portion and lifter portion are substantially the same length, and a viewing device, which is preferably a CCD or CMOS camera positioned near the transition portion between the base and lifter portions, is aligned to provide a perspective view toward the distal end of the lifter. Lights, which are preferably LED units, are positioned toward the distal end of the lifter to facilitate viewing. A transparent protective sheathing may be positioned over the assembly to facilitate cleaning and provide sterile multiple use of the device, and the lifter may be pivotally secured to the base portion to facilitate on-site adjustment by the practitioner.

An artery, vein, aneurysms vascular malformation or arterial fistula is occluded through endovascular occlusion by the endovascular insertion of a platinum wire and/or tip into the vascular cavity. The vascular cavity is packed with the tip to obstruct blood flow or access of blood in the cavity such that the blood clots in the cavity and an occlusion if formed. The tip may be elongate and flexible so that it packs the cavity by being folded upon itself a multiple number of times, or may pack the cavity by virtue of a filamentary or fuzzy structure of the tip. The tip is then separated from the wire mechanically or by electrolytic separation of the tip from the wire. The wire and the microcatheter are thereafter removed leaving the tip embedded in the thrombus formed within the vascular cavity. Movement of wire in the microcatheter is more easily tracked by providing a radioopaque proximal marker on the microcatheter and a corresponding indicator marker on the wire. Electrothrombosis is facilitate by placing the ground electrode on the distal end of the microcatheter and flowing current between the microcatheter electrode and the tip.

REEAXMINATION RESULTS The questions raised in reexamination request 90/007,231, filed Oct. 4, 2004 have been considered and the results thereof are reflected in this reissue patent which constitutes the reexamination certificate required by 35 U.S.C. 307 as provided in 37 CFR 1.570(e), for ex parte reexaminations, or the reexamination certificate required by 35 U.S.C. 316 as provided in 37 CFR 1.99(e) for inter partes reexaminations.

Systems and methods for monitoring of biometric and contextual variables to assist in screening for, quantification of, and prediction of smoking behavior, and for assisting in smoking cessation are described.

The invention provides a laser splice welding system for high-strength steel structure thin plates. The laser splice welding system comprises a welding portal frame and the like. A fixed pressing device, a movable pressing device and a welding platform are all located below the welding portal frame. The fixed pressing device and the movable pressing device are located on the two sides of the workpiece welding platform correspondingly. A transversely-moving trolley is arranged on the welding portal frame, a robot level laser composite welding system is fixed to the position below the transversely-moving trolley, and a workpiece transferring device is located on the side faces of a front welding material frame and a rear welding material frame. The welding portal frame is sleeved with a laser protective door, and the front welding material frame and the rear welding material frame are located below one side of the fixed pressing device. According to the laser splice welding system for the high-strength steel structure thin plates, the diversified welding methods such as self-fusible welding, laser filler wire welding and laser electric-arc hybrid welding can be achieved, automatic locating can be conducted before welding; and in the welding process, real-time tracing of welding joints can be achieved, the welding technological parameters are adjusted in real time according to slope gap and misalignment changing, and self-adaptation filling of welding wires is achieved. According to the laser splice welding system, teaching programming is easy, and operating is convenient.

A pressurized gas containing system has a cowling and mounting ring which supports a valve and regulator on a cylinder containing gas under pressure.

An epi-illumination apparatus for fluorescent observation, adjusting light intensities of a plurality of illuminations on a sample over a wide wavelength band continuously and being configured inexpensively, and a fluorescence microscope having the same are provided. A light source, extracting means, an aperture stop, and a filter are arranged on a predetermined optical axis. The aperture stop is arranged on a plane generally conjugated with a pupil plane of an objective. The filter is placed near the aperture stop. The extracting means extracts a plurality of narrow wavelength bands from the wavelength band of the illumination emitted from the light source. The filter has regions of different spectral transmission characteristics to the narrow wavelength bands. The adjusting means for adjusting light intensities of transmitted light from the filter in the narrow wavelength bands independently by moving the filter in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis is provided.

A composite focused ion beam device includes a first ion beam irradiation system 10 including a liquid metal ion source for generating a first ion, and a second ion beam irradiation system 20 including a gas field ion source for generating a second ion, and a beam diameter of the second ion beam 20A emitted from the second ion beam irradiation system 20 is less than that of the first ion beam 10A emitted from the first ion beam irradiation system 10.

An object of the invention is to realize a method and an apparatus for processing and observing a minute sample which can observe a section of a wafer in horizontal to vertical directions with high resolution, high accuracy and high throughput without splitting any wafer which is a sample. In an apparatus of the invention, there are included a focused ion beam optical system and an electron optical system in one vacuum container, and a minute sample containing a desired area of the sample is separated by forming processing with a charged particle beam, and there are included a manipulator for extracting the separated minute sample, and a manipulator controller for driving the manipulator independently of a wafer sample stage.

Adoption of composite cube-corner retroreflective elements in which groups of each at least two sub-retroreflective elements which are each defined by three lateral faces mutually crossing at approximately right angles, as being configured by three-directional V-shaped parallel groove groups having substantially symmetrical sections and intersecting with each other, and which are arrayed in the closest-packed state, projecting on one side of their common sub-plane (SH-SH), each of said groups of sub-reflective elements being disposed on one main retroreflective element which is defined by three lateral faces mutually crossing at approximately right angles, as being configured by three-directional V-shaped parallel groove groups having substantially symmetrical sections and intersecting with each other, and which is disposed on the main plane (S-S).

Systems and methods for monitoring of biometric and contextual variables to assist in screening for, quantification of, and prediction of smoking behavior, and for assisting in smoking cessation are described.

High resolution observation is achieved at a low acceleration voltage of 5 kV or below under a high pressure condition of a sample chamber. A sample chamber has a double structure and an inner sample chamber for keeping low vacuum is arranged inside an outer sample chamber having high vacuum. A relatively high negative voltage such as −1 to −9 kV for decelerating electrons immediately before a sample is applied between the outer sample chamber and the inner sample chamber. When an incident electron beam passes through an objective lens, an electron beam keeping high energy and having small aberration is formed and is decelerated immediately before the sample to acquire high resolution at a low acceleration voltage.