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System and Method for Positioning a Mobile Medical Imaging System
12 Aug 20
The present invention relates to mobile imaging.
SHAILESH KUMAR AGRAHARI, RAVINDRA BHAT, AMIT AGRAHARI
Filed: 24 Sep 18
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Ultrasonic Measurement of Vessel Stenosis
12 Aug 20
An ultrasound system is used to measure the percent stenosis of a vessel in terms of residual lumen area.
JAMES ROBERTSON JAGO
Filed: 15 Oct 18
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Ultrasound Probe Transducer Testing
12 Aug 20
An ultrasound probe is tested for failure of 5 elements of its array transducer by operating the probe with its lens in contact with the air.
Ji Cao, Patrick Lambert, Mark Potts
Filed: 15 Oct 18
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Automatic Field of View Updating of Position Tracked Interventional Device
12 Aug 20
A position tracker driven display system for an interventional device (50) including an integration of one or more position trackers and one or more interventional tools.
Alyssa TORJESEN, Molly Lara FLEXMAN, Torre Michelle BYDLON, Ashish PANSE
Filed: 22 Aug 18
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Pump Device, Comprising a Pump and a Housing Accommodating the Pump
12 Aug 20
A pump device (1) as may be used in a breast pump assembly comprises a pump (10) configured to put fluid in motion, a housing (40) accommodating the pump (10), at least one fluid transporting conduit (21, 22) connected to the pump (10), the at least one conduit (21, 22) extending between the pump (10) and the housing (40), thereby connecting the pump (10) to a position at the housing (40) where the housing (40) is provided with at least one opening (41) for allowing fluid to pass, and a mounting arrangement (30) for mounting the pump (10) in the housing (40).
Johannes Petrus Antonius Maria VAN ASSELDONK, Alexander VAN ROOIJEN, Eyob Atnafu AMRA
Filed: 26 Sep 18
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Brachytherapy Afterloader Device
12 Aug 20
A brachytherapy after loader device (100), comprises at least one transmit wire (102) that is suitable for being inserted and driven in an advance or retract motion in an external first delivery channel (103) and for delivering drive energy to a test field source (104), which is arranged at a distal end region of the transmit wire, for generating a magnetic test field; at least one receive wire (106) that is suitable for being inserted and driven in an advance or retract motion in an external second delivery channel (105) for a measurement of the magnetic test field, the receive wire having a transducer (108) that is configured to detect magnetic-field changes in the magnetic test field; and a wire driving unit (110) which is configured to controllably advance or retract the transmit wire and the receive wire in response to a corresponding test drive control signal (112).
Guillaume Leopold Theodorus Frederik HAUTVAST
Filed: 18 Oct 18
Utility
a Cutting Unit
12 Aug 20
There is disclosed a cutting unit (14, 60, 80, 100) for a hair cutting device (10), comprising: a blade carrier (16) carrying a cutting blade; a guard (18) comprising: a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location; a planar guard contact surface (30) for contacting skin of a user, wherein the guard contact surface (30) is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface; and a guard extender (40, 70, 90) separate from the guard (18), wherein the guard extender (40, 70, 90) comprises a planar extension contact surface (46, 76, 96) configured to cooperate with the guard contact surface (30) to provide an extended contact zone (50) across the guard (18) and the guard extender (40, 70, 90) for contacting skin of a user.
Marcus Franciscus EIJKELKAMP, Arjen DE BOER, Martijn Frans Johan NAB, Roel Alexander RETHMEIER, Willem MAAT
Filed: 23 Sep 18
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Systems and Methods for Wireless Communication In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri)
12 Aug 20
A magnetic resonance imaging system (100, 200, 300, 400) includes a wireless communication station (600) which: receives via a receive antenna element (630) at least one first clock signal among two or more first clock signals which are synchronized with a first clock (510); transmits two or more second clock signals from two or more transmit antenna elements (620-1) of a phased array antenna (620); transmits data representing a sensed magnetic resonance signal from at least two of the transmit antenna elements; outputs a clock synchronization signal in response to the received first clock signal(s); and synchronizes a second clock (610) to the first clock signal in response to the clock synchronization signal.
RODRIGO CALDERON RICO, ARNE REYKOWSKI, PAUL FRANZ REDDER
Filed: 23 Oct 18
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Quantitative Measurement of Relaxation Times In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
12 Aug 20
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100, 400).
CHRISTIAN STEHNING, JULIEN SENEGAS
Filed: 26 Sep 18
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Ultrasound Systems and Methods for Measuring Acoustic Attenuation Coefficients
12 Aug 20
Systems and methods for improving spectral-shift methods for calculating acoustic attenuation coefficients are disclosed.
SHENG-WEN HUANG, HUA XIE, JEAN-LUC FRANCOIS-MARIE ROBERT, MAN NGUYEN, VIJAY SHAMDASANI
Filed: 5 Sep 18
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Ultrasound Transducer Device and Method for Controlling the Same
5 Aug 20
The invention provides an ultrasound transducer device comprising an electroactive polymer (EAP) element coupled atop a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) element, wherein the two elements are controlled to vibrate concurrently at a common frequency by application to each of a drive signal of the same AC frequency.
Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens, Sergei Shulepov, Peter Dirksen, Mark Thomas Johnson, Daan Anton Van Den Ende
Filed: 19 Sep 19
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Assisting a Person to Consume Food
5 Aug 20
Presented are concepts for assisting a person to consume food from an item of tableware.
Raymond VAN EE, Ronaldus Maria AARTS, Ron Martinus Laurentius VAN LIESHOUT, Murtaza BULUT
Filed: 11 Sep 18
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Automated Tumor Partitioning
5 Aug 20
The invention provides for a medical instrument (100, 300, 400) comprising: a memory (110) for storing machine executable instructions (112) and a processor (106) for controlling the medical instrument.
BERNHARD GLEICH, JORN BORGERT, JOCHEN KEUPP
Filed: 29 Aug 18
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Intelligent Ultrasound-based Fertility Monitoring
5 Aug 20
The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods configured to identify ovarian follicles by applying a neural network to pre-processed ultrasound image frames.
SINDHU PRIYADARSHINI NELLUR PRAKASH, GANESAN RAMACHANDRAN, ANUMOD ODUNGATTU THODIYIL, SANJAY RAMACHANDRA HEGDE, PALLAVI VAJINEPALLI, CELINE FIRTION
Filed: 8 Oct 18
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Low Profile Anti Scatter and Anti Charge Sharing Grid for Photon Counting Computed Tomography
5 Aug 20
An anti-scatter grid (ASG) for X-ray imaging with a surface (S) formed from a plurality of strips (LAM).
HEINER DAERR, ROLAND PROKSA
Filed: 13 Aug 18
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Clutter Reduction for Ultrasound Images and Associated Devices, Systems, and Methods
5 Aug 20
Ultrasound imaging systems and methods for generated clutter-reduced images are provided.
Andrew HANCOCK, Yiqun YANG, David HOPE SIMPSON, Francois Guy Gerard Marie VIGNON, Jun Seob SHIN
Filed: 22 Jan 20
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Actuator Member and Method for Forming the Same
5 Aug 20
An actuator member has a body formed of a composite material of electroactive material (EAM) particles and a compliant matrix material.
Eduard Gerard Marie Pelssers, Daan Anton Van Den Ende, Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens, Achim Hilgers, Mark Thomas Johnson
Filed: 25 Sep 18
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Optical Registation of a Remote Center of Motion Robot
5 Aug 20
A robotic surgical system for a minimally invasive procedure involving a planned tool trajectory through a planned incision point into a patient.
David Paul NOONAN, Aleksandra POPOVIC
Filed: 25 Sep 16
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Shim System for a Magnetic Resonance Hybrid Scanner
5 Aug 20
A magnetic resonance apparatus which may include: a body portion having a cavity with a first and second ends and at least one opening situated at one of the first and second ends.
JEFFREY EDWARD LEACH, PHILIP ALEXANDER JONAS, JOHANNES ADRIANUS OVERWEG, VIKTOR MOKHNATYUK
Filed: 22 Apr 20
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Microfluidic Device Possessing Structures Enabling Differential Analysis of a Single Cell's Constituents
5 Aug 20
A method and a micro fluidic device comprising at least one micro fluidic structure for differential extraction of nuclear and extra-nuclear constituents of a single cell, said micro fluidic structure comprising a feeding channel for receiving a volume of a sample containing at least one cell, at least one trapping structure for capturing a single cell, and at least one output channel in fluid connection with the at least one trapping structure, wherein the at least one trapping structure extends from one side of the feeding channel substantially perpendicular to longitudinal axis of the feeding channel, the at least one trapping structure possessing an aperture at its end opposite to the fluid channel and in fluid communication with an output channel, said aperture being configured to provide a narrow section such that the nucleus of a cell captured in the trapping structure cannot pass through said narrow section into the output channel.
Pieter Jan VAN DER ZAAG, Rodolphe Charly Willy MARIE, Dianne Arnoldina Margaretha Wilhelmina VAN STRIJP, Tom OLESEN, Roland Cornelis Martinus VULDERS, Anders KRISTENSEN
Filed: 14 Nov 16