74 results about "Respiratory gating" patented technology

The invention provides a retrospective off-respirator respiration gating method of a cardiac image sequence. According to the method, firstly the Laplacian eigenmap in a manifold learning method is used to carry out dimensionality reduction processing on a matrix with the storage of ECG gating cardiac image sequence data to obtain a low-dimensional coordinate matrix embed in a high-dimensional observation data point set, then the Euclidean distance between adjacent feature vectors in the low-dimensional coordinate matrix is calculated, the local maxima of the Euclidean distance is detected and is used as the selection position of a gated frame, and thus a gating image sequence with the removal of respiration motion artifact is obtained. According to the method, the matrix formed by the gray values of all pixels in an image is directly analyzed, and the respiration motion information in the cardiac image sequence is obtained. According to the method, only the solution of the feature value of a sparse matrix is needed, the manual involvement of an operator is not needed, and the method has the advantages of low computational complexity, high degree of automation, and low application cost. Furthermore, only local distance information is used in the method, and a gating result is not sensitive to noise.

A respiratory motion determination apparatus determines respiratory motion of a living being (3). A raw data providing unit (2) provides raw data assigned to different times, wherein the raw data are indicative of a structure like the apex of the heart muscle, which is influenced by cardiac motion and by respiratory motion. A reconstruction unit (6) reconstructs intermediate images of the structure from the provided raw data. A structure detection unit (7) detects the structure in the reconstructed intermediate images. A respiratory motion determination unit (10) determines the respiratory motion of the living being based on the structure detected in the reconstructed intermediate images. This allows determining respiratory motion with high accuracy, without relying on, for example, a stable correlation between a tracking signal of an external respiratory gating device and respiratory phases.

In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for implementing an MR-guided procedure, an MR-compatible digital camera is placed in the patient receiving opening of the MR data acquisition unit that is operated to acquire MR data for reconstructing images that are used to guide the MR-guided intervention. The digital camera is operated to obtain digital images of the exterior of the patient, from which motion of the patient is detectable. The images are analyzed in a processor to identify therefrom the motion of the patient and the result of the analysis is represented as a processor output that is used to control the timing, with respect to the motion of the examination subject, of the occurrence of at least one event in the MR-guided procedure. One important application is respiratory gating / triggering of HIFU sonication for the treatment of moving organs.