BrainLAB AG Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160132122 | Gesture Feedback for Non-Sterile Medical Displays - The present disclosure relates to a feedback system for control or input gestures in a medical environment, which includes a presence detector which generates a threshold and acquires detection data which describe whether a medical input gesture reaches and/or crosses the threshold; and the extent to which the gesture has passed the threshold; and a computer which is connected to the presence detector and triggers a sterility-preserving response to a positive detection by the presence detector including information how dangerous the situation is becoming with regard to non-sterility. The invention also relates to a medical image display system comprising such a feedback system and to a method of providing sterility-preserving feedback with respect to control or input gestures in a medical system. | 05-12-2016 |
20160109960 | Gesture Feedback for Non-Sterile Medical Displays - The present disclosure relates to a feedback system for control or input gestures in a medical environment, which includes a presence detector which generates a threshold and acquires detection data which describe whether a medical input gesture reaches and/or crosses the threshold; and a computer which is connected to the presence detector and triggers a sterility-preserving response to a positive detection by the presence detector, wherein the computer is configured to provide user guidance comprising a warning message if actual contact with a medical display has been detected by the presence detector or a touch screen display or a touch detector on the display. The invention also relates to a medical image display system comprising such a feedback system and to a method of providing sterility-preserving feedback with respect to control or input gestures in a medical system. | 04-21-2016 |
20160106552 | ADJUSTABLE ENDOPROSTHESIS - The present application relates to an endoprosthesis including a first member which is connected to a patient's bone; a second member which is adjustably coupled to the first member by a coupling device; wherein the coupling device configured to generate a movement of the second member relative to the first member. The present application also relates to an artificial joint including such an endoprosthesis and to an endoprosthesis placement system including such an endoprosthesis or artificial joint and a projection device which is configured to project visible light markings, acquired from pre-operational and/or intra-operational patient data, onto the patient and/or the endoprosthesis, thus enabling visible alignment markings of the endoprosthesis to be aligned with respect to projected visible light markings so as to allow a proper adjustment of the endoprosthesis. | 04-21-2016 |
20160030129 | ADAPTOR FOR RECEIVING A NAVIGATED STRUCTURE WHICH IS AT LEAST A PART OF A MEDICAL OBJECT AND METHOD OF REGISTERING A NAVIGATED STRUCTURE USING THE ADAPTOR - An adaptor for receiving a navigated structure, wherein the navigated structure is at least a part of a medical object which carries an object reference, and for being connected to a registration tool in order to register the navigated structure in a medical navigation system, the adaptor comprising at least two adaptor parts which, in an assembled state, form a structure receiving recess in the shape of the navigated structure and an adaptor coupling part for connecting the adaptor to the registration tool in a predetermined relative position. | 02-04-2016 |
20160022173 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A LEG LENGTH DIFFERENCE AND A LEG OFFSET - A data processing method, performed by a computer, for determining a leg length difference and a leg offset difference of a patient's leg including a femur connected to a pelvis, comprising the steps of: —determining a first landmark vector between a femoral landmark and a second landmark at a first point in time; —determining a second landmark vector between the femoral landmark and the second landmark at a second point in time which is later than the first point in time; —calculating an orthogonal projection of the first landmark vector into a sagittal plane and using the direction of the orthogonal projection of the first landmark vector into the sagittal plane as a leg length direction; —calculating a direction which is perpendicular to the sagittal plane and using this direction as a leg offset direction; and —calculating the leg length difference in the leg length direction and the leg offset difference in the leg offset direction from the first landmark vector and the second landmark vector. | 01-28-2016 |
20160015951 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PLANNING A DIRECT INFUSION INTO HEPATIC TISSUE - A method for planning an infusion into hepatic tissue into a patient includes: obtaining anatomical and/or physiological patient data of the patient's liver or a region of the liver; determining at least one patient parameter from the patient data; planning the infusion using the anatomical patient data, physiological patient data, and/or at least one patient parameter, wherein planning includes determining how an administered substance is distributed in the tissue and/or how the administered substance influences physiological properties of the tissue; and determining a distribution and/or effectiveness of a therapeutic agent administered with the substance or after the substance. | 01-21-2016 |
20150359456 | MEDICAL HOLDER DEVICE OR A FLEXIBLE MEDICAL TOOLTIP AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE POSITION OF THE TOOLTIP - A medical holder device to which a flexible medical tooltip comprising an optical fibre can exchangeably be attached, the medical holder device comprising an optical fibre connector for receiving the proximal end of the optical fibre, a light source adapted to emit light into the optical fibre, a light receiver adapted to receive light reflected at the distal end of the optical fibre and to output a corresponding output signal and a processing unit adapted to receive the output signal from the light receiver and to calculate a bending of the optical fibre. | 12-17-2015 |
20150351718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING THE CONTACT POSITION OF AN ULTRASOUND PROBE ON A HEAD - A data processing method for calculating the contact position of a medical ultrasound transceiver on the head of a patient, comprising the steps of: a) acquiring ROI data which represent a region of interest (ROI) corresponding to at least a part of a vessel in a vascular structure; b) acquiring contact region data which represent a contact region for the ultrasound transceiver on the head, wherein the contact region corresponds to one or more acoustic windows; c) determining at least one target point in the region of interest; d) determining at least two entry points on the contact region; e) calculating a set of lines which comprises the lines between the two points of each respective possible pair consisting of one entry point and one target point; f) eliminating lines which pass through a bony structure other than the bone immediately beneath the contact region; g) calculating a score for each of the remaining lines; and h) selecting the entry point of the line with the highest score as the contact position of the ultrasound transceiver. | 12-10-2015 |
20150351661 | NAVIGATED INDUCTION DETECTOR - A method of determining the position of an induction-susceptive device inside an anatomical body part, comprises the following steps: a) emitting, towards the anatomical body part and from an electromagnetic emitter device, an oscillating electromagnetic field having a predetermined first field strength; b) acquiring, by using an electromagnetic detector device, an electromagnetic detection signal describing a second field strength which corresponds to the field strength of the electromagnetic field in the proximity of the anatomical body part; c) determining, based on comparing the first field strength and the second field strength, whether the second field strength differs from the first field strength, and d) if the second field strength differs from the first field strength, issuing a corresponding position indicating signal from an indication device, which position indicating signal indicates the presence of the induction-susceptible device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150338214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING UNDESIRABLE ROTATION OF MEDICAL MARKERS - A data processing method for determining rotation by a marker device | 11-26-2015 |
20150327817 | METHOD OF MANAGING A BRAIN STROKE - The present invention relates to a medical method of managing a cerebrovascular insult, the method comprising the following steps in this order:
| 11-19-2015 |
20150297303 | POSITIONING DEVICE FOR A MEDICAL FIELD GENERATOR - The present invention relates to a positioning device ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150294510 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONTACT POSITION PARAMETERS OF A JOINT CONNECTING TWO BONES - A data processing method for determining six parameters, corresponding to six degrees of freedom, of a contact position of a joint which connects two bones, comprising the steps of acquiring a 3D model of each bone, acquiring four of the six parameters as given parameters, selecting initial values for the two remaining parameters and varying the two remaining parameters virtually in order to achieve a virtual relative position between the two 3D models such that they are in contact with each other. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294467 | Matching Patient Images of Different Imaging Modality Using Atlas Information - The present invention relates to a medical data processing method of transforming a representation of an anatomical structure ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150254838 | MATCHING PATIENT IMAGES AND IMAGES OF AN ANATOMICAL ATLAS - A data processing method for determining a matching transformation for matching a set of one or more images of an anatomical body structure of a patient, referred to as a patient image set, and a set of one or more images of a general anatomical structure, referred to as an atlas image set, wherein the general anatomical structure comprises a plurality of anatomical elements referred to as atlas elements, and each patient image is associated with one of a plurality of different parameter sets, wherein the parameter sets comprise one or more parameters which obtain when the patient images are generated, and the parameters influence representations of anatomical elements in the patient images, the method comprising the following steps performed by a computer: acquiring atlas data (S | 09-10-2015 |
20150243025 | ISOCENTRIC PATIENT ROTATION FOR DETECTION OF THE POSITION OF A MOVING OBJECT - The invention relates to a method for determining the position of an object moving within a body, wherein the body is connected to markers, a movement signal is determined based on the measured movement of the markers, images are taken from the object using a camera or detector, wherein the camera or detector is moved with respect to the object, it is determined from which direction or range of angles or segment the most images corresponding to a predefined cycle of the movement signal are taken, and using at least some or all of the images of the segment containing the most images for a specified movement cycle, an image of the object is reconstructed. | 08-27-2015 |
20150148653 | DETERMINING A RANGE OF MOTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL KNEE JOINT - A data processing method for determining a range of motion of an artificial knee joint which connects a femur and a tibia via a medial ligament and a lateral ligament, wherein at least the femur comprises an implant which forms a medial condyle and a lateral condyle, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring the maximum lengths of the lateral ligament and the medial ligament for a particular flexion angle of the knee joint; calculating a first virtual position between the femur and the tibia in which the lateral condyle of the femoral implant touches the tibia and the medial ligament is stretched to its maximum length; calculating a maximum valgus angle of the range of motion from the first virtual position; calculating a second virtual position between the femur and the tibia in which the medial condyle of the femoral implant touches the tibia and the lateral ligament is stretched to its maximum length; and calculating a maximum varus angle of the range of motion from the second virtual position. | 05-28-2015 |
20150057526 | CONTROL OF A MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE VIA A NAVIGATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a data processing method of determining at least one operating parameter of a medical imaging device, the method being executed by a computer and comprising the following steps:
| 02-26-2015 |
20150038765 | USING DIFFERENT INDICATORS FOR DETERMINING POSITIONAL CHANGES OF A RADIOTHERAPY TARGET - The present invention relates to a method for determining data referred to as target change data which can be used for performing radiotherapy treatment, the target change data describing information on the change of position of a target included in a body of a patient, the method being performed by a computer and comprising the following steps:
| 02-05-2015 |
20140358114 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN INFUSION PARAMETER - The present invention refers to a data processing method for planning an infusion of a medical substance into a target region in an anatomical body part, wherein the medical substance is to be infused by means of an infusion setup which comprises an infusion device for performing the infusion as well as the medical substance, the method comprising:
| 12-04-2014 |
20140324061 | ACQUIRING CONTACT POSITION PARAMETERS AND DETECTING CONTACT OF A JOINT - The present invention relates to a data processing method of determining a transformation for the relative positions of two body parts which are connected to each other by a joint, the method comprising the following steps:
| 10-30-2014 |
20140316257 | SELF-LOCALIZING DEVICE - A method of determining the position of a medical device to be localized, comprising:
| 10-23-2014 |
20140303947 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONTACT POSITION PARAMETERS OF A JOINT CONNECTING TWO BONES - A data processing method for determining six parameters of a contact position of a joint which connects two bones, comprising the steps of acquiring a plurality of sample contact position datasets, each dataset comprising six parameters, acquiring a subset of n of the parameters of the contact position as an input parameter dataset, selecting at least two of the sample contact position datasets based on the input parameter dataset and determining the m=6−n remaining parameters of the contact position based on the at least two selected sample contact position datasets. | 10-09-2014 |
20140253712 | MEDICAL TRACKING SYSTEM COMPRISING TWO OR MORE COMMUNICATING SENSOR DEVICES - A medical tracking system comprising at least two sensor devices which are independently maneuverable and can be positioned in a fixed position relative to targets, each sensor device comprising at least one of an orientation sensor and a position sensor for respectively determining sensor data, the system further comprising a control unit configured to receive and combine the at least two sensor data of the at least two sensor devices in order to determine a relative position between at least two of the at least two sensor devices. | 09-11-2014 |
20140235999 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING A DEFORMABLE BODY - The present invention relates to a method for determining the spatial position and the shape of a surgical instrument ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140232740 | DOSE DISTRIBUTION DISPLAY METHOD USING COLOURS - The invention is directed to a data processing method of displaying a radiation dose distribution in tissue of a patient and a corresponding program and computer running the program, the steps of the method being executed by a computer and comprising:
| 08-21-2014 |
20140194734 | PATIENT POSITIONING SYSTEM WITH AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING SYSTEM - The invention relates to a patient positioning system ( | 07-10-2014 |
20140180239 | CATHETER WITH PRESSURE SENSOR SYSTEM - A catheter for administering a substance into a patient's tissue including a number of pressure sensors for detecting changes in the shape of the catheter or s a backflow along the surface of the catheter. In response to the pressure distribution profile collected along the surface or length of the catheter, the physician may simulate or adapt the substance administration plan to accommodate the actual position of the catheter or the backflow along the surface of the catheter. | 06-26-2014 |
20140171726 | DOSE-OPTIMISED PATIENT POSITIONING FOR RADIOTHERAPY - The present invention relates to a method for positioning an arrangement of at least one beam position relative to a patient's body when the patient is placed for treatment by means of a treatment device which can emit treatment radiation, wherein the at least one beam position describes at least one position of at least one treatment beam, wherein the arrangement is referred to as the treatment arrangement and the treatment beam comprises the treatment radiation, wherein the method is executed by a computer and comprises the following steps:
| 06-19-2014 |
20140107610 | MEDICAL CATHETER WITH REDUCED BACKFLOW - A medical catheter ( | 04-17-2014 |
20140037173 | DETERMINATION OF A CHANGE OF POSITION OF A BONY STRUCTURE IN RADIATION THERAPY - The present invention refers to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a relative position between the position of the bony structure and a reference position at a monitoring time, the relative position being referred to as monitoring bone position, wherein an anatomical structure of a patient includes the bony structure and a treatment body part to be treated by at least one treatment beam of a treatment device, the reference position having a defined relative position with respect to an actual arrangement of at least one position of the at least one treatment beam; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: •providing CBCT image data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the bony structure, the CBCT image representing the bony structure at a pre-alignment time; •providing x-ray image data describing at least one two-dimensional x-ray image of the anatomical structure, the at least one two-dimensional x-ray image representing the bony structure ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140005685 | METHOD FOR PREPARING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A DAMAGED BONE STRUCTURE | 01-02-2014 |
20130339958 | PROCESSING OF DIGITAL DATA, IN PARTICULAR MEDICAL DATA BY A VIRTUAL MACHINE - The present invention relates to a virtual machine (VM) for processing digital data (MD), in particular medical data by executing a digital data processing application program, in particular a medical data application program called MeDPAP, the virtual machine (VM) being a simulation of a computer, the virtual machine comprising at least the following components: a MeDPAP controller (MC) which is constituted—so that it can be addressed by a Uniform Resource Identifier called VM-URI via a wide area network (WAN), —to support direct interoperable interaction with a client application (MCA) over the wide area network (WAN), —to assign a Uniform Resource Identifier called MeDPAP-URI to the MeDPAP, and —to send the assigned MeDPAP-URI to the client application via the wide area network (WAN); and the MeDPAP which is constituted—to process the digital data (MD), —so that it can be addressed by the client application via the wide area network (WAN) by using the MeDPAP-URI, and —to support direct interaction with the client application over the wide area network for receiving instructions from the client application (MCA) to process the digital data. | 12-19-2013 |
20130326639 | VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL DATA - The present invention relates to a virtual machine (VM) for processing digital data, in particular medical data, by executing a digital data processing application program, in particular a medical data processing application program (MeDPAP), the virtual machine (VM) being a simulation of a computer, a) the virtual machine (VM) comprising a volatile memory (ViMStor) configured to comprise a storage space for temporary data (TEMP) for temporarily storing the digital data; b) the virtual machine (VM) being configured to be accessed by any virtual machine user activated on a virtual machine user list, wherein any activated maintenance virtual machine user is denied any permission regarding the storage space for temporary data (TEMP), wherein denying any permissions is performed by logging into the virtual machine (VM) as an administrator and setting corresponding options; c) wherein any administrator has been deactivated on the virtual machine user list, wherein deactivating any administrator has been performed by logging into the virtual machine (VM) as an administrator and setting corresponding options for each administrator in the virtual machine user list; d) wherein the virtual machine (VM) is in a state in which the administrator has been logged off after deactivating the administrator on the virtual machine user list. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324785 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLANNING OR CONTROLLING A RADIATION TREATMENT - The present invention relates to method for generating planning data or control data for a radiation treatment, comprising the following steps: acquiring segmented data of an object which contains a treatment volume and a non-treatment volume; modelling at least some or all of the volume or surface of the treatment volume as a source of light or rays exhibiting a predefined or constant initial intensity; modelling the non- treatment volume as comprising volumetric elements or voxels which each exhibit an individually assigned feature or attenuation or transparency value (t | 12-05-2013 |
20130315463 | RETROSPECTIVE MRI IMAGE DISTORTION CORRECTION - The invention relates to a method for correcting MRI image distortion, in which a distortion correction procedure is carried out on an acquired MRI image data set ( | 11-28-2013 |
20130287167 | DETERMINATION OF A BODY PART POSITION DURING RADIATION THERAPY - The present invention relates to a data processing method for use in the field of radiation therapy and for determining a position of a treatment body part relative to an actual arrangement of at least one position of a treatment beam issued by a treatment device, the position being called monitoring tissue position and the treatment body part being a soft tissue part of an anatomical structure of a patient; the data processing method being constituted to be performed by a computer and comprising the following steps: providing CBCT data describing a three-dimensional CBCT image of the anatomical structure, the three dimensional CBCT image representing the treatment body part and a bony structure in a relative position to each other, called tissue-bone pre-alignment position, at a point in time, called pre-alignment time; providing x-ray data describing information on a position of the bony structure, called monitoring bone position, relative to the actual arrangement at a point in, time during treatment, called monitoring time, the monitoring time being after the pre-alignment time; determining the monitoring tissue position of the treatment body part relative to the actual arrangement based on the tissue-bone pre-alignment position represented by the CBCT image data, based on the information on the monitoring bone position described by the x-ray data, and based on a predefined relationship between a first relative position between the treatment body part and the bony structure at the pre-alignment time and a second relative position between the treatment body part and the bony structure at the monitoring time. | 10-31-2013 |
20130279772 | ADVANCED FIBER TRACKING AND MEDICAL NAVIGATION IN A BRAIN - A method for finding fibers in image data of a brain, comprising the steps of: matching (S | 10-24-2013 |
20130261760 | METHOD FOR PLANNING POSITIONING OF A BALL JOINT PROSTHESIS - The present invention relates to a method for planning the positioning of a ball joint prosthesis, in particular a hip joint prosthesis, wherein the prosthesis includes a stem and a cup and the method comprises the following steps: —determining the position of at least one point lying on the rim of the joint socket, in particular the position of at least two points lying in an anterior region of the acetabulum; —defining a requirement for the position and/or orientation of the cup on the basis of the determined positions of the at least one point. The present invention also relates to a method for optimising the positioning of a ball joint prosthesis, in particular a hip joint prosthesis, wherein the prosthesis includes a stem and a cup and the method comprises the following steps: —defining at least one requirement for the position and/or orientation of the cup; —calculating an optimum position and/or orientation of the cup on the basis of all the defined requirements being fulfilled. | 10-03-2013 |
20130204428 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a method for controlling apparatus, in particular medical apparatus, comprising the following steps:
| 08-08-2013 |
20130187955 | INTRA-OPERATIVE IMAGE PRESENTATION ADAPTED TO VIEWING DIRECTION - The invention relates to an intra-operative image presentation method, in which an image representation ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130137973 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE APERTURE ANGLE OF A JOINT - A device for determining the aperture angle of a joint includes a detection device for detecting positions of joint components and/or positions of structures connected to or to be connected to the joint and a computational unit for ascertaining the aperture angle of the joint based on the detected positions. | 05-30-2013 |
20130085779 | AUTOMATIC TREATMENT PLANNING METHOD USING RETROSPECTIVE PATIENT DATA - A data processing method for planning a medical treatment comprising following steps performed by a computer:
| 04-04-2013 |
20090270712 | MARGIN DETERMINATION/TUMOR CELL MIGRATION - A method for identifying target regions in a tissue for local drug delivery, wherein functional and/or structural anatomical data such as edema and/or resection cavity is captured by an imaging system, and wherein the anatomical data is evaluated by segmentation techniques such as region-growing-based methods with computer assistance to determine a margin around a resection cavity and/or the volume of edema, the margin and/or the volume of edema being the target tissue for local drug delivery. | 10-29-2009 |
20080200804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFUSING SUBSTANCES - A method for determining a backflow of a substance along a track of a delivery device includes: a) obtaining parameters that influence the flow of the fluid or substance; b) acquiring information about delivery data; and c) computing the backflow along the delivery device using the information in steps a) and b). | 08-21-2008 |