| TOMTEC IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH Patent applications |
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| 20120134569 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING POSITION-RELATED GRAY VALUE VARIATIONS BY MEANS OF A REGISTRATION OF IMAGE DATA SETS - The present invention relates to a device and to a method for reducing in particular position-related gray value variations of image data sets of an object ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120046972 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND DISPLAYING MEDICAL DATA - The invention relates to a medical data management method and system wherein medical data ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120038666 | METHOD FOR CAPTURING AND DISPLAYING IMAGE DATA OF AN OBJECT - A method for detecting and displaying image data of at least one object with reference to a human or animal body is provided with the following method steps: detecting a spatial structure and position of the object through a physical space detection and generating image data of the object on the basis of this detection, projecting the image data onto an artificial body, which represents the human or animal body, and displaying the object using the image data projected onto the artificial body. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20110317899 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NAVIGATION IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA SET - A device and to a method for navigation in a multi-dimensional image data set of an object, obtained by a medical imaging method, including depicting a randomly selectable first visual plane through the image data set as the first sectional image, in which a user can navigate and designate a point by means of an input device, and depicting, in addition to the first sectional image, a further, second sectional image, including another point, designated by the user in the first sectional image, in a second visual plane which intersects the image data set at that angle that corresponds to the perspective obtained during the recording of the image data set at the designated point. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110282210 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DERIVATION OF A PROXIMAL ISOKINETIC SHELL OF A PROXIMAL FLOW CONVERGENCE ZONE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PISA FLOW MEASUREMENT - The invention relates to a device and to a method for adaptive three-dimensional derivation of a proximal isokinetic shell of a proximal flow convergence zone that forms in an observation area in a moving fluid, wherein the magnitude of the velocity of the fluid at each point of the proximal isokinetic shell is identical and equal to a velocity reference value, the method including: a) preparing locally distributed velocity measurements in a surrounding area of the observation area, the measurements representing at least one directional component of the local velocity of the fluid in a respective measurement direction, b) preparing an approximation surface as an initial proximal isokinetic shell in such a way that the entire flow, at least substantially, in the flow convergence zone penetrates the approximation surface, c) establishing a plurality of approximation points on the approximation surface, d) determining the respective velocity measurements at the respective approximation points, e) calculating a corrected velocity (v | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110275908 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING MEDICAL DATA - A method for analysing medical data in view of a specific clinical question, the method including the steps of a) providing one or several medical datasets having data acquired by means of one or several diagnostic modalities from one patient; b) providing a clinical question to be answered by the medical dataset(s); c) selecting one or several evaluation methods which are generally suitable for returning relevant information with regard to the clinical question; and d) automatically analysing the medical dataset(s) with regard to their suitability to be used for the one or several evaluation methods and calculating corresponding quality factors for each pair of medical dataset and evaluation method. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110262109 | METHOD FOR RECORDING MEDICAL IMAGES OF A MOVING OBJECT - The invention relates to a method for recording medical images, in particular ultrasound images, of a moving object, in particular of a heart, said method comprising the following steps: generating a movement signal that dynamically represents the state of movement of the moving object, identifying the phase position and the frequency of the moving object on the basis of the movement signal, reconstructing the images on the basis of the phase position and of the frequency and/or carrying out at least one scan of the moving object, with the recording times being adjusted according to the phase position and the frequency of the moving object. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262023 | METHOD OF FILTERING AN IMAGE DATASET - A method of filtering an image dataset and an apparatus, a data carrier, and a computer program product, the method having the following steps: providing an N-dimensional input image dataset; applying a filtering algorithm to the input image dataset, wherein the filtering algorithm is essentially unvarying over the dataset, to thereby obtain a filtered image dataset; providing a spatially varying weighting function between the input and the filtered image datasets; computing a weighted sum of the input image dataset and the filtered image dataset, thereby using the spatially varying weighting function, in order to obtain an output image dataset. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110181590 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING 3D IMAGE RECORDS IN 2D IMAGES - The invention relates to method and an apparatus for depth cueing, i.e. improving the sense of depth in two-dimensional images of three-dimensional volume data, said 2D images being generated using volume rendering. The invention is characterized in that a second depth color chart generated from the original color chart by permuting at least two color channels is used in the depth dimension. Alternatively, all three color channels can be permuted. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110103661 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEGMENTING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - The present invention relates to a method and device for automatical segmentation of medical images of a non-planar surface of an object, in particular of a heart valve, including detecting a surface boundary which delimits the non-planar surface of the object, creating a model surface, which is spanned between the surface boundary, correcting the model surface by means of distance information containing information about the distance between the model surface and the non-planar surface of the object, until a corrected model surface is generated, and depicting the corrected model surface, where the correction of the model surface is preferably carried out by means of three- or four-dimensional image data sets, by orienting the three-dimensional volume-rendering of the object essentially perpendicular to the model surface, so that the information about the distance between the model surface and the non-planar surface of the object can be evaluated, until the corrected model surface has been produced. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110102435 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING SURFACE-LIKE STRUCTURES IN VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS - The present invention relates to a method and a device for visualizing surface-like structures in volumetric data sets, including defining local coordinate systems at sample points of the volumetric data set, transforming external parameters from a global coordinate system into the local coordinate systems, calculating the gradient vector components (Gai, Gbi, Gci) within the local coordinate systems of the sample points, and using the gradient vector components (Gai, Gbi, Gci) for calculating a surface normal at a given position of the volumetric data set, where the surface normal is important for conventional illumination models such as the Blinn-Phong shading model, preferably, the present invention is also calculating the external parameters from the global coordinate system at the given position by using the transformed external parameters of the local coordinate systems of the sample points, where the shading or illumination at the given position is then done by using a conventional illumination model, thereby using the calculated surface normal at the given position and the calculated external parameters at the given position. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20100145197 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A MOTION-CORRECTED 3D IMAGE OF A CYCLICALLY MOVING OBJECT - The invention relates to a device and method for generating a motion-corrected 3D image of a cyclically moving object by means of an ultrasound probe, comprising the steps of providing at least one 3D reference image of the object, the 3D reference image showing the object substantially at one particular phase in its cyclic movement; acquiring a set of sub-images of the object by sweeping the ultrasound probe over the moving object; registering at least two, preferably all, of the sub-images with the 3D reference image, thereby generating at least two motion-corrected sub-images; and reconstructing a motion-corrected 3D image from the motion-corrected sub-images. The invention is also directed to a corresponding device, computer program, and digital storage medium. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100014738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BREAST CANCER SCREENING - The invention relates to a system for breast cancer screening and a corresponding method carried out with the system, the method comprising the following steps:
| 01-21-2010 |
| 20090315888 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF DYNAMIC INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method and system for graphic representation of dynamic information from a dynamic 2D or 3D object. In particular, the invention relates to a novel method of interpolating dynamic information having values of different signs. The method of the present invention is particularly useful for the graphic representation of dynamic information, in particular flow data which has been acquired with a colour-Doppler-method. The method of the invention can be used for representing the flow of liquids, such as blood and is therefore useful for human and animal diagnostics. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090175515 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMME FOR EVALUATING IMAGES OF A CAVITY - The invention relates to a device, a method and a computer programme for evaluating images of the heart that have been captured by means of a medical imaging method. According to said method, at least two data records containing functional values, which describe the ventricular wall activity, are produced in a random format, are converted into a uniform format and the data records in the uniform format are compared with one another or calculated. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20080240534 | Method and Device For Navigating and Measuring in a Multidimensional Image Data Set - The invention relates to a method and device for navigating on a vision plane ( | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080199062 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EVALUATING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA SETS - The present invention relates to a method, a device and a computer program product for evaluating medical image data sets, which consists of two-dimensional section images, in particular MR images, wherein a plurality of two-dimensional cross-sections (K | 08-21-2008 |
