131 results about "Computed tomography scanner" patented technology

A high speed computed tomography x-ray scanner using a plurality of x-ray generators. Each x-ray generator is scanned along a source path that is a segment of the scanner's source path such that each point in the source path is scanned by at least one tube. X-ray generators and detectors can be arranged in different scan planes depending on the available hardware so that a complete and near planar scan of a moving object can be assembled and reconstructed into an image of the object.

A computed tomography scanner includes a base system and a rotor system. The rotor system has an axle that is rotationally mounted to the base system. At least one x-ray source is mounted to the rotor system. A power interface system at least partially disposed about the axle couples power to the x-ray source. The power interface may include a slip ring assembly or a cable assembly that winds and unwinds about the axle as the rotor system rotates.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional kidney neoplasm surgery simulation method and a platform based on a computed tomography (CT) film. The method includes that firstly, a data base including object resources is built, multiple manners including CT film scanning are inputted into a CT faultage image, a sequence image is registered according to the sequence based on an outline gradient principle, a registered CT image is utilized to reconstruct segmentation tissue of an arterial phase, a venous phase and a lag phase by adopting of a three-dimensional reconstruction technology, and the segmentation tissue of the arterial phase, the venous phase and the lag phase are effectively fused in the same coordinate space. According to an imaging staging criteria and a treatment guideline of kidney neoplasm, and based on modeling results, various peration plan designing, operation stimulation, surgical risk analysis and response, and prognostic analysis are carried out, a personalized and benefit maximization treatment plan can be provided for an object, and skills and degree of proficiency of an operation can be improved, and the three-dimensional kidney neoplasm surgery simulation method can be used in medical teaching.

A radiotherapeutic device has a radiotherapeutic irradiation unit with a radiation source for generation of radiotherapeutic radiation and a beam guidance and/or beam shaping device in order to direct the radiotherapeutic radiation in a defined manner onto a specific irradiation region. The radiotherapeutic device additionally has an imaging unit that includes a radionuclide emission tomography acquisition unit and a computed tomography scanner. The radiotherapeutic device also has a support device with a positioning device in order to position the support device in an image acquisition position in which a body region to be irradiated of a patient borne on or in the support device is located in an acquisition region of the image acquisition unit, or in order to position the support device in an irradiation position in which the body region to be irradiated of the patient is at least partially located in congruence with the irradiation region of the irradiation unit. The radiotherapeutic device additionally has a coordinate registration device that registers changes of all position coordinates of the support device given a movement of the support device between the image acquisition position and the irradiation position.

In a method for image generation and image evaluation in the medical field, raw data are generated by a selected medical modality, in particular a computed tomography scanner, depending on given modality parameters, and image data are generated from the raw data using an image reconstruction depending on given reconstruction parameters. The image data are evaluated by a given analysis application. Before acquiring the raw data, a secondary application automatically proposes a set of parameter values for the modality parameters and/or for the reconstruction parameters coordinated to the given analysis application and/or given patient information.

A system and method is provided directed to improved real-time image guidance by uniquely combining the capabilities of two well-known imaging modalities, anatomical 3D data from computer tomography (CT) and real time data from live fluoroscopy images provided by an angiography/fluoroscopy system to ensure a more efficient and safer intervention in treating punctures, drainages and biopsies in the abdominal and thoracic areas of the human body.

A radiation detector (30) for a computed tomography scanner (12) includes a support structure (62). An alignment board (60) secures to the support structure (62) and includes photolithographically defined alignment openings (70) arranged to define a spatial focal point (34) relative to the alignment board (60). An anti-scatter element (32) is disposed on the support element (62) and includes one or more protrusions (86) which mate with the alignment openings (70) of the alignment board (60) to align the anti-scatter element (32) with the spatial focal point (34). A detector board (104) includes alignment structures (106) that align the detector board (104) with the anti-scatter element (32).

The invention relates to a computer tomograph comprising a detector unit (2) consisting of a plurality of detectors (1) for identifying X-ray radiation (40). According to the invention, the individual detectors (1) of the detector unit (2) are configured to receive incident quanta of the X-ray radiation (40) and to record the received X-ray radiation (40), both in terms of its intensity and in terms of the quantum energy of the individual X-ray quanta of the received X-ray radiation (40). The invention also relates to a corresponding method for identifying X-ray radiation by means of a computer tomograph that comprises a detector unit (2) consisting of a plurality of detectors (1).

The invention relates to a computed tomography (CT) iteration reconstruction method for an asymmetrical detector. The CT iteration reconstruction method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: performing air correction, nonlinear correction, crosstalk correction, defocus correction and calibration correction on raw data acquired by a computed tomography scanner to obtain projection data; judging whether the projection data is CT scan data or helical scan data, and if the projection data is the CT scan data, grouping the CT scan data; calculating a projection weight to obtain a weight matrix; performing ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) iteration orthographic and back projection according to the weight matrix; judging whether iteration ending conditions are met, if so, ending the iteration orthographic and back projection to obtain an initial CT image; and performing postprocessing on the initial CT image to obtain the reconstructed CT image. By the method, the iteration back projection reconstruction is carried out by directly using incomplete projection data, artifact can be relived, noise level difference caused by data inconsistency due to interpolation is inhibited, and the CT iteration reconstruction method is mainly suitable for less-than-four-row CT detectors.

The invention discloses a coronary artery CT (computed tomography) contrastographic image calcification point detecting method. According to the method, the existing coronary artery central axis is utilized, firstly, the local structural features of each voxel point in an interested region of a blood vessel are extracted, then, the spherical harmonic conversion is utilized for quantizing the local structural features, feature vectors are obtained, finally, a classification algorithm is adopted for classifying the obtained feature vectors, the local structural feature approximation degree of the voxel points to the calcification points, blood vessel lomens and image backgrounds in a training dataset is determined, and calcification point detecting results are finally obtained. The method has the advantages that calcification points positioned on the coronary artery blood vessel walls in the coronary artery CT contrastographic image can be precisely positioned, and the efficiency and the accurate rate of the computer auxiliary diagnosis are improved.

A method and apparatus of aligning calibration projection data with object projection data to improve calibration corrections of the object projection data. In a first implementation, the method interpolates and upsamples both the calibration and object data, then shifts the upsampled calibration data to match a sub-view angular offset of the object data, and then performs calibration corrections before down-sampling the corrected object data. In a second implementation, the method continuously scans an object space—with the object absent (present) in the object space—to obtain calibration data (object absent) and object data (object present) both having the same sub-view angular offset. In a third implementation, the method obtains multiple scans having different sub-view angular offsets, organizes the scans into bins according to their respective sub-view angular offsets, and chooses the appropriate sub-view angular offsets bin for calibration corrections of the object data.

An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a device and method for a quantitatively calibrated computed tomography scanner. The device includes a gentry configured for receiving a patient or part of a patient. The gentry includes an X-ray source and a detector positioned opposite said X-ray source, such that said detector receives the X-rays emitted from the X-ray source. Calibration phantoms are integrated with the gentry and/or a device within the scanner so as to allow for calibration in quantitative CT measurements of Hounsfield units and/or bone mineral density.

A computed tomography scanner includes a first (20) and second (21) detectors. The second detector (21) has a relatively higher spatial resolution and a relatively smaller field of view (204) than that of the first detector (20). Projection data generated by the detectors (20, 21) is combined and reconstructed so as to generate relatively high resolution volumetric data (318) indicative of a region of interest (314) in an object under examination.

A computed tomography detector module can include a detector element, a frame, and a converter element. The detector element can be configured to detect electromagnetic radiation at a detection plane and output one or more analog detection signals. The frame can connect to the detector element and include a shield portion, parallel to the detection plane, configured to at least partially block X-rays. The converter element can include a substrate having connector and component substrate portions, the connector substrate portion thicker in a direction perpendicular to the detection plane than the component substrate portion and configured to extend through an aperture of the frame, the component substrate portion having at least one substrate surface parallel to the detection plane with one or more electrical components attached thereto. The detector module can optionally include a heat sink, which can have a top surface separated from the component substrate portion and components attached thereto by a separation gap. A computed tomography scanner can include the detector module.

Disclosed are methods, circuits, devices, assemblies and systems for performing Computer Tomography (CT)—for example of a periodically moving object such as a heart. According to some embodiments, there is provided a Computer Tomography scanner which includes an x-ray source adapted to generate an x-ray scan beam and a electromechanical assembly to which the x-ray source is mounted. The assembly may be adapted to move one or more electromechanical elements such that the scan beam is moved around the periodically moving object with a velocity profile having both constant and cyclically alternating rotational velocity components, and wherein the cyclically alternating velocity components are synchronized with the periodic motion of the object.

An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium store and manage image data with automatic labeling of image data corresponding to body slices, such as obtained by a computed tomography scanner. The labels include a body coordinate value along the body axis. The respective body coordinate value can be determined by comparing received image data sets with reference data sets with known attached coordinate values utilizing pattern recognition techniques. Applications include medical image data management in hospitals or operating and providing medical networks. Queries for images that include particular body regions are processed more efficiently. This results in less local memory required and narrower bandwidth resources of transmission networks.

The present invention provides an image distributing apparatus, which makes it possible to automatically and appropriately classify destination terminals, to which the image information sets are distributed, without requiring the hospital to prepare extra personnel for this operation, and as a result, to improve the efficiency of the operation. The image distributing apparatus is provided with: a memory means for storing the image information, formed by image-forming apparatus, etc., such as a Computer Tomographic Scanner, a Magnetic Resonance image-forming apparatus and an X-ray image-forming apparatus (including Computed Radiography), and to which the retrieving information are added; an inquiring means for inquiring of an information managing server of a hospital information system about destination terminals of the image information based on the retrieving information; and a distributing means for distributing the image information to an image viewer equipped in a medical room, an image viewer equipped in an image inspection room, an image viewers equipped in a filing room, etc., each serving as a destination terminal inquired by the inquiring means.

A computer tomograph comprises a rotating part and a stationary part, and includes a system for transmitting data between the rotating part and the stationary part with a directional radio link. The system comprises an antenna arrangement for directional emission of data signals from the rotating part along a direction of a rotation axis of the rotating part, and for directionally sensitive reception of data signals at a patient's table on the stationary part.

The present invention provides systems, methods, and devices for improved computed tomography (CT). More specifically, the present invention includes methods for improved cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) resolution using improved filtered back projection (FBP) algorithms, which can be used for cardiac tomography and across othertomographic modalities. Embodiments provide methods, systems, and devices for reconstructing an image from projection data provided by a computed tomography scanner using the algorithms disclosed herein to generate an image with improved temporal resolution.