Siemens Medical Solutions USA,Inc.

Patent application number	Title	Published
Siemens Medical Solutions USA,Inc. Patent applications
20100066372	ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE PET PHANTOM FOR MR/PET QUALITY CONTROL MEASUREMENT - A phantom for use in quality control measurement of a fully integrated magnetic resonance/PET scanner is disclosed. The phantom features radiation activity distributed throughout an electrically conductive binder. Suitably, the binder is elastomeric and includes carbon fibers distributed throughout it to set the conductivity of the phantom to a desired level. The phantom is applicable to various multimodality integrated medical imaging systems such as MR/SPECT and MR/CT in addition to MR/PET.	03-18-2010
20090112199	EP SIGNAL MAPPING-BASED OPTICAL ABLATION FOR PATIENT MONITORING AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS - A system and method are disclosed for utilizing a single integrated EP/ablation catheter to treat cardiac arrhythmias. The disclosed catheter combines the EP signal monitoring of a traditional EP diagnostic catheter, and optical energy for the ablation therapy, which is expected to provide a more efficient, accurate and reliable method of cardiac ablation than current RF techniques since it is based on real-time EP signal mapping, with precise pathological tissue localization, cardiac arrhythmia severity characterization and delivers predictable energy doses with continuous safety monitoring of the intracardiac signals.	04-30-2009