203 patents
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Optical-based input for medical devices
13 Dec 22
A system for adjusting an operating state of a medical electronic device is described.
Kirusha Srimohanarajah, Dorothy Lui, Gal Sela, Stephen Elliott Soman, Sepide Movaghati
Filed: 8 Dec 16
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Surgical optical zoom system
22 Nov 22
Methods and systems for controlling a surgical microscope.
Tammy Kee-Wai Lee, William La, Paul Quevedo, Aryeh Benjamin Taub, Yusuf Bismilla, Sam Anthony Leitch, Yuri Alexander Kuzyk, Ze Shan Yao, Michael Frank Gunter Wood
Filed: 28 Mar 21
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System and method for delta relaxation enhanced magnetic resonance imaging
22 Nov 22
A delta-relaxation magnetic resonance imaging (DREMR) system is provided.
Alexander Gyles Panther, Cameron Anthony Piron, Jeff Alan Stainsby, Chad Tyler Harris
Filed: 18 Oct 18
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System and method for determining health care procedures and reimbursement
8 Nov 22
A method and system is provided for recording a health care event, optimizing medical procedures and calculating reimbursement.
Cameron Anthony Piron, Arun Victor Jagga, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Thanh Vinh Vuong
Filed: 18 Aug 16
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Method and system for reducing magnetic field instabilities in a magnetic resonance system
18 Oct 22
A method, device, and system for reducing inhomogeneity in an imaging magnetic field during magnetic resonance imaging is described.
Ian Connell, Chad Harris, Geron Bindseil, Andrew T. Curtis
Filed: 26 May 21
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Head coil system and methods for enhancing and/or optimizing MRI
6 Sep 22
Optionally adjustable head coil system and methods for enhancing and/or optimizing magnetic resonance imaging, involving a housing, the housing having at least one portion, the at least one portion having a lower portion, an upper portion, and opposing side portions, each at least one portion optionally in movable relation to any other portion for facilitating adjustability, each at least one portion configured to accommodate at least one radio-frequency coil, and the upper and lower portions each optionally configured to overlap and engage the opposing side portions for facilitating decoupling the at least one radio-frequency coil, and a tongue portion optionally in movable relation to any other portion for facilitating adjustability, engageable with the lower portion, and fixably couple-able with a transporter.
William Wai-Leung Lau, Alexander Gyles Panther, Gilbert Thevathasan, Mark Tullio Morreale
Filed: 27 Jan 16
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System and method for reducing peripheral nerve stimulation at higher gradient amplitudes and faster gradient slew rates in magnetic resonance imaging
30 Aug 22
Described here are systems and methods for imaging a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system using magnetic field gradients generated by one or more gradient coils operating with gradient coil settings (e.g., gradient amplitudes, gradient slew rates) above a threshold at which peripheral nerve stimulation (“PNS”) is likely to be induced in the subject.
Chad Harris, Geron Bindseil, William Handler
Filed: 31 Oct 16
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Magnetic resonance imaging system and method for rapid shutdown and recharge of a superconducting magnet
30 Aug 22
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a set of magnet coils for generating a magnetic field.
Jeff Alan Stainsby, Chad Tyler Harris, Alexander Gyles Panther
Filed: 29 Jan 21
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Systems and methods for navigation and simulation of minimally invasive therapy
16 Aug 22
Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific pre-operative images.
Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau
Filed: 21 Jun 19
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Systems, devices, and methods for contactless patient registration for a medical procedure
16 Aug 22
Methods and apparatuses for performing patient registration. 3D scan data from a 3D scanner, preoperative image data, first tracking data from a first tracking system, and second tracking data from a second tracking system are mapped to a common coordinate space.
Kirusha Srimohanarajah, Dorothy Lui, Gal Sela, Kai Hynna, Shysta Ismaili, Samson Ng, Jakub Jankowski
Filed: 6 Nov 20
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Magnetic resonance imaging systems and methods
2 Aug 22
A method is provided for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging near metal, including acquiring an image at a first magnetic field from a subject that includes a metal object, acquiring an image at a second magnetic field, and combining the images to provide a corrected image with reduced metal distortion.
Jeff Alan Stainsby, Chad Tyler Harris
Filed: 8 Dec 20
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Transmit coil frequency response correction for magnetic resonance imaging
26 Jul 22
Methods for correcting a non-uniform power response of a radiofrequency (“RF”) transmit coil used in magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) are described.
Jeff Alan Stainsby, Chad Tyler Harris, Andrew Thomas Curtis, Alexander Gyles Panther
Filed: 18 Jun 20
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Motorized full field adaptive microscope
5 Jul 22
An optical imaging system for imaging a target during a medical procedure, the imaging system involving an optical assembly having moveable zoom optics and moveable focus optics, a zoom actuator and a focus actuator for positioning the zoom and focus optics, respectively, a controller for controlling the zoom and focus actuators independently in response to received control input, a camera for capturing an image of the target from the optical assembly, the system capable of performing autofocus during a medical procedure.
Tammy Kee-Wai Lee, Michael Frank Gunter Wood, Cameron Anthony Piron, Brent Andrew Bailey, Sagar Saxena, Sean Adrian Conroy, Kamyar Abhari, Kai Michael Hynna, Gal Sela, Kelly Noel Dyer, Joshua Lee Richmond
Filed: 24 Nov 20
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System and method for optimizing discrete wire positions used in gradient coil electromagnetic design
5 Jul 22
The present disclosure reports on a method to first determine the required electromagnetic stream function, and then iterate on the contouring of the stream function to optimize the force, torque, shielding, and/or mutual inductance of the design after-the-fact without compromising the electromagnetic performance and an electromagnetic coil manufacture according to the method.
Geron André Bindseil, Chad Tyler Harris, Ian Robert Oliphant Connell
Filed: 12 Aug 20
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System and method to reduce eddy current artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging
5 Jul 22
Some implementations provide a system that includes: a housing having a bore in which a subject to be image is placed; a main magnet configured to generate a volume of magnetic field within the bore, the volume of magnetic field having inhomogeneity below a defined threshold; one or more gradient coils configured to linearly vary the volume of magnetic field as a function of spatial location; one or more pulse generating coils configured to generate and apply radio frequency (RF) pulses to the volume of magnetic field in sequence to scan the portion of the subject; one or more shim gradient coils configured to perturb a spatial distribution of the linearly varying volume of magnetic field; and a control unit configured to operate the gradient coils, pulse generating coils, and shim gradient coils such that only the user-defined region within the volume of magnetic field is imaged.
Jeff Alan Stainsby, Chad Tyler Harris
Filed: 3 Aug 20
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Methods and systems for providing visuospatial information and representations
14 Jun 22
Methods and systems for providing feedback during a medical procedure are provided.
Kamyar Abhari, Stewart David McLachlin, Kai Michael Hynna, Gal Sela
Filed: 7 May 18
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System and method of selectively showing tractography in areas containing free water
7 Jun 22
A system and method of tractography labelling in the presence of a brain lesion.
Wesley Bryan Hodges, Alicia McNeely, Sebastian Koga, Tim Hayes, Hayk Adamyan
Filed: 15 Oct 21
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End effector force sensor and manual actuation assistance
24 May 22
An automated positioning system and methods of controlling the same.
Brent Andrew Bailey, Trevor James Dell, Bart Verzijlenberg, Adam Philip, Sean Dowling
Filed: 28 Aug 18
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Flexible high resolution endoscope
17 May 22
A flexible high resolution endoscope is provided herein.
Sean Jy-Shyang Chen, Kamyar Abhari, Michael Frank Gunter Wood, Gal Sela
Filed: 17 Aug 16
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Surgical camera system with automatic alternation between two depths of field
17 May 22
A surgical camera system, and method therefor, is provided which includes a plurality of imaging devices each having a tunable iris configured to change between at least two different sized numerical apertures.
Siu Wai Jacky Mak, Michael Frank Gunter Wood, Yanhui Bai
Filed: 9 Feb 21