61 results about "Diagnostic imaging equipment" patented technology

A diagnostic imaging apparatus of hand piece type suitable for medical or dental use, comprising a main body held by operator's fingers, a luminous means for irradiating at least one of lights selected from excitation light, infrared light and ultraviolet light, and an imaging means provided in a forward portion of the main body. The imaging means comprises a solid-state image sensing device and an optical means for forming an optical image of a diagnosis object to be examined on the solid-state image sensing device and is so constructed as to output a predetermined diagnostic image information by receiving the light reflected from the diagnosis object and / or the fluorescence generated from the diagnosis object when irradiation of light from the luminous means to the diagnosis object is performed.

Systems and methods for enabling universal remote access and display of diagnostic images acquired by diagnostic imaging equipment, independent of the identity of the vendor that manufactured the equipment. One system includes a local area network; a scanner capable of sending objects formatted in accordance with a communications protocol, each object incorporating at least one image frame; and a data capture device connected to the local area network and programmed with data capture software to capture an object originating from the scanner in response to that scanner being specified as an object of diagnosis. This system further includes a communications channel, e.g., a virtual private network, for connecting the data capture device to a central service facility. The preferred communications protocol is DICOM. In response to an instruction from the service center, the data capture device on the LAN captures image files from a malfunctioning scanner and forwards them to the service center for diagnosis.

A diagnostic imaging system, which can be a mobile or stationary surgical CT imaging system or an MRI system, comprises an internal airflow cooling system that includes an air intake opening and an air outtake opening that are positioned near the ground and direct air flow away from the sterile surgical field.

A diagnostic imaging apparatus of hand piece type suitable for medical or dental use, comprising a main body held by operator's fingers, a luminous means for irradiating at least one of lights selected from excitation light, infrared light and ultraviolet light, and an imaging means provided in a forward portion of the main body. The imaging means comprises a solid-state image sensing device and an optical means for forming an optical image of a diagnosis object to be examined on the solid-state image sensing device and is so constructed as to output a predetermined diagnostic image information by receiving the light reflected from the diagnosis object and / or the fluorescence generated from the diagnosis object when irradiation of light from the luminous means to the diagnosis object is performed.

In a diagnostic imaging apparatus, a stationary gantry (24) and a rotating gantry (22) are interfaced by a plurality of air bearing elements (40). Lower air bearing elements bear the weight of the rotating gantry (22) which induce air hammering phenomena at a characteristic vibration frequency. To counteract the air hammering, a damping assembly (44) is mounted to at least one lower bearing element (40). The damping assembly (44) includes a damping mass (46) and an elastomeric connector (48) that are tuned to a frequency near the air hammer frequency to absorb the vibrational energy and damp the air hammer vibrations.

A cylinder (10) of radiation detectors (12) detects radiation pairs with corresponding electronic detector channels (22) which have non-uniform time-varying temporal delays. A plurality of calibration radiation sources (20) that concurrently emit radiation pairs is mounted at known positions inside of the cylinder. A temporal correction processor (46) uses the known positions of the calibration sources to determine errors in the relative detection times of radiation pairs from the calibration sources and uses the determined errors to generate corrections for the relative detection times of radiation pairs from radiopharmaceuticals injected in an imaged subject.

Ultrasonograms (105, 106) are created by means of ultrasonic probe (104). Volume image data is created previously by using an image diagnosis apparatus (102) and stored in a volume data storage unit (107). From the stored volume image data, a tomogram corresponding to the scan surface of the ultrasonic images is extracted, and a reference image (111) is formed from the tomogram. The ultrasonograms and the reference image are displayed on the same screen (114). An area of the reference image corresponding to the viewing area of the ultrasonogram is extracted, and a reference image of the same portion as that of the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan image and / or displayed with the same magnification as that of the ultrasonograms.

The invention is an interface device and system for establishing an operating interface between an injector device and diagnostic imaging equipment. In one embodiment, the interface device may permit an operator to concurrently operate and control the injector device and the imaging equipment. The interface device may permit the injector system and the imaging system to communicate information regarding their current and future operational status with each other. The interface device may be used to synchronize the operation of the imaging equipment and the injector device. In one embodiment, the injector device and the imaging equipment may be able to communicate with each other directly or through the interface device via a communications protocol comprising binary logic signals. The binary logic signals may comprise one or more of a low strength signal, a high strength signal, an oscillating signal that oscillates between low and high signal strength, and combinations thereof.

A diagnostic imaging apparatus and method are provided. The diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a lesion from a medical image, an interpretation unit configured to acquire a shape feature value by interpreting a shape of the detected lesion in a frequency domain, and a diagnosis unit configured to determine whether the detected lesion is benign or malignant based on the acquired shape feature value.

The diagnostic imaging apparatus according to the present embodiments includes a display unit, an input unit, and a display control unit. The display unit includes a display area in which a medical image and a menu in relation to the medical image are displayed. The input unit receives input to the display area. The display control unit displays different menus in the display area in accordance with the input received by the input unit.

Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound toward a subject and a received signal obtained by receiving a reflected ultrasound from the subject, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a puncture needle position detection unit which obtains a puncture needle echo information indicating an angle and a position of the puncture needle from the plane-wave received signal, and an ultrasound image is displayed on the basis of the received signal, the transmission unit applies the driving signal to the ultrasound probe so that a plane-wave transmission ultrasound is output from the ultrasound probe, and the receiving unit receives a plane-wave received signal which is obtained in such a way that the plane-wave transmission ultrasound is transmitted from the ultrasound probe, reflected by a puncture needle to be the reflected ultrasound and received by the ultrasound probe.

To achieve a radiation detection panel capable of outputting a signal for generating an accurate pixel signal regardless of the performance of a conversion unit, a detection circuit that outputs a signal used for generating a pixel signal includes a first output circuit that outputs a signal due to afterglow, and a second output circuit that outputs a signal including both a signal based on radiation emission and a signal due to afterglow. Transistors using an oxide semiconductor material for a channel formation region are used as some transistors included in the first and second output circuits. In the radiation detection panel having this structure, the signal (a first signal or a second signal) can be held in each output circuit; therefore, after all output circuits hold the signal (the first signal or the second signal), the first signal and the second signal can be sequentially output from detection circuits.

A diagnosis apparatus in which a lesion in the large intestine can be diagnosed with high precision by detecting pits is provided. A three-dimensional optical tomographic image is obtained by the configuration of an apparatus using an endoscope and an optical probe, images in X-Y planes perpendicular to the depth direction of a living body tissue are cut out at a plurality of depth positions, based on the three-dimensional tomographic image data, and a pit pattern shape highlighted image is generated from their average image to perform diagnostic support.

A diagnostic imaging apparatus and a method of operating the diagnostic imaging apparatus. The diagnostic imaging apparatus includes: a probe that scans a subject, into which a contrast agent is injected, to obtain a scan signal; and a display unit that displays a scan video image obtained based on the scan signal, on a first region of a screen, and N captured images from the scan video image on a second region of the screen, where N is a natural number.

A method for simulating operation or installation of a diagnostic imaging device which is displayed on a display device at a customer location without having the imaging device located at the customer location and using a server which is located remote from the customer location and a network connecting the remote server to the customer, wherein the remote server stores information regarding simulation operation, display, installation, replay and dummy of the imaging device.

Disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material which has particularly excellent heat resistance, while exhibiting excellent transparency, surface gloss, adhesion and piezoelectric characteristics. Also disclosed are an ultrasonic oscillator used in an ultrasonic medical diagnostic imaging device, which is capable of highly sensitively receiving a high frequency wave and suitable for harmonic imaging technique, a method for producing the ultrasonic oscillator, an ultrasonic probe, and an ultrasonic medical diagnostic imaging device. The organic piezoelectric material is characterized in that the piezoelectric material is formed by laminating two or more films at the same time by a coating process.

An ultrasonic imaging system includes an imaging catheter and an imaging apparatus. The imaging catheter has an insert for being inserted into a blood vessel, a transducer disposed in the insert, and at least one temperature sensor disposed in the insert. The temperature sensor measures the intravascular temperature in a radial direction of the blood vessel and rotates to measure an intravascular temperature distribution in a transverse cross section of the blood vessel. The diagnostic imaging apparatus has an ultrasonic signal receiver for receiving an ultrasonic signal measured by the transducer, a temperature signal receiver for receiving an intravascular temperature signal measured by the temperature sensor, and an image constructing unit for constructing an image to be displayed from a tomographic vascular image generated from the ultrasonic signal and intravascular temperature information generated from the intravascular temperature signal, in relation to positional information of the ultrasonic signal and the intravascular temperature signal.

A diagnostic imaging apparatus includes an image generation device for generating a plurality of images of a subject for display in a display device, the plurality of images including a first image generated for display at a first display magnification and other images generated for display at other display magnification different from the first display magnification, and a marking setting device which sets a first marking to indicate a region of interest on the first image and other markings on the other images, the other markings being displayed, based on the other display magnification, in a position corresponding to the position of the first marking set on the first image.

A diagnostic imaging device is provided that includes a display panel, a set of switches including at least one of a proximity switch and a capacitive switch, and a one-piece non-flexible facade covering the display panel and the set of switches. The facade is transparent over at least a portion of the display panel and configured such that the set of switches are operable by a user. A method for cleaning the imaging system includes operating the diagnostic imaging device, including the set of switches, by touching the one-piece non-flexible facade with human fingers or a stylus over selected switches, and, after said operating the diagnostic imaging device, disinfecting the diagnostic imaging device by cleaning the one-piece non-flexible facade with quaternary ammonium or isopropyl alcohol, or both.

A method and apparatus for diagnostic imaging of a body part, by nuclear magnetic resonance, which method includes the steps of positioning the body part in a detection volume of a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, inside a dedicated receiving coil; selecting the section or sections of said body part that has to be imaged and carrying out image detection by nuclear magnetic resonance; identifying and storing the detected images; and carrying out at intervals one or more subsequent image detections with nuclear magnetic resonance of the same body part and of the same section thereof as in the preceding image detections with nuclear magnetic resonance, positioning each time the body part in the same relative position with respect to the imaging volume of the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus.

The invention belongs to the field of ultrasonic therapy technology, and involves mobile ultrasonic therapy equipment which is compatible with diagnostic imaging equipment. The mobile ultrasonic therapy treatment equipment includes ultrasonic treatment unit, the ultrasonic treatment unit includes ultrasonic transducer, and the device also includes a patients containing modules and mobile units, the patients containing module is fixed on the mobile units, the ultrasonic treatment unit is linked or fixed with the patients containing module, the patients containing module is equipped with small holes and the ultrasonic transducer is installed on the corresponding location below the small holes. The movement of the ultrasonic therapy equipment in the invention is convenient and flexible; there is no need to carrying patients, so reduce the suffering of treating patients.

A method and apparatus for diagnostic imaging of a body part, by nuclear magnetic resonance, which method includes the steps of positioning the body part in a detection volume of a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, inside a dedicated receiving coil; selecting the section or sections of said body part that has to be imaged and carrying out image detection by nuclear magnetic resonance; identifying and storing the detected images; and carrying out at intervals one or more subsequent image detections with nuclear magnetic resonance of the same body part and of the same section thereof as in the preceding image detections with nuclear magnetic resonance, positioning each time the body part in the same relative position with respect to the imaging volume of the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus.

Disclosed is a standard image display method for ultrasonograms and an ultrasound diagnostic device, wherein ultrasonograms (105, 106) are created by means of an ultrasonic probe (104). Volume image data is created previously by using an image diagnosis apparatus (102) and stored in a volume data storage unit (107). From the stored volume image data, a tomogram corresponding to the scan surface of the ultrasonic images is extracted, and a reference image (111) is formed from the tomogram. The ultrasonograms and the reference image (111) are displayed on the same screen (114). An area of the reference image corresponding to the viewing area of the ultrasonogram is extracted, and a reference image of the same portion as that of the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan image.

A data processing system to have in a diagnostic imaging apparatus and so on is comprised of a signal-power estimating unit for estimating signal power by using reference data containing data different from processing-target data and a data processing unit for processing the processing-target data by using a WF based on the signal power estimated by the signal-power estimating unit.

A reference image display method for ultrasound imaging and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus are disclosed, wherein ultrasound images (105, 106) are captured by an ultrasound probe (104). The reference image (111) is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to a scan plane of an ultrasound image from volume image data previously acquired by a diagnostic imaging apparatus (102) and stored in a volume data storage unit (107). The ultrasound image and the reference image (111) are displayed on the same screen (114). In this case, a portion of the reference image corresponding to the viewing range of the ultrasound image is extracted and the generated reference image having the same area as the ultrasound image is displayed in a fan-shaped image.

A diagnostic imaging apparatus which stores in a main storage device files containing image data, generated on the basis of signals from a subject, regarding the subject. The diagnostic imaging apparatus includes an auxiliary storage device provided separately from the main storage device, a backup judgment device which judges whether or not a part or the whole of a group of the files stored in the main storage device is to be backed up in the auxiliary storage device, and a backup device which, when this backup judgment device has judged that backup is to be performed, transmits and records a part or the whole of the group of the image files stored in the main storage device to and in the auxiliary storage device and erases the image files recorded in the auxiliary storage device from the main storage device.