| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 378980900 | With plural X-ray energies | 12 |
| 20080232549 | System and Method For Dual Energy Dynamica X-Ray Imaging - A system and method for dual energy imaging in dynamic imaging sequences is disclosed. The system and method includes a x-ray source ( | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090016492 | PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A photographing control apparatus that controls a sensor for accumulating and reading out electric charge in order to obtain an image, includes: a deciding unit adapted to decide a frame period showing an image photographing interval, based on an input of an input unit; a determining unit adapted to determine, based on the frame period decided by the deciding unit, whether accumulation and reading out of electric charge not for use in an image generating process is set in the frame period; and a control unit adapted to control the sensor based on the determination by the determining unit. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090086913 | RADIATION CONVERSION PANEL AND METHOD OF CAPTURING RADIATION IMAGE THEREWITH - A radiation conversion panel includes a first pixel group from which electric charges are read after a first energy-level image capturing cycle and after a second energy-level image capturing cycle, and a second pixel group from which electric charges are read after the second energy-level image capturing cycle, wherein pixels of the first pixel group and pixels of the second pixel group are arranged alternately. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090202043 | Polychromic Digital Radiography Detector with Patterned Mask for Single-Exposure Energy-Sensitive X-Ray Imaging - A digital radiography system, having: a pixelated optical detector; and a mask positioned adjacent to the pixelated optical detector, the mask comprising a repeating pattern of first and second portions configured to pass different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation therethrough such that a polychromic X-ray image can be taken using only a single X-ray exposure with a single imaging detector. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100104072 | Multi-Energy Radiography Using Monoenergetic Pulsed Source - A method and apparatus for multi-energy object inspection using a brilliant x-ray source. A first mono-energetic x-ray image of an object at a first selected energy is generated. A second mono-energetic x-ray image of the object at a second selected energy is generated. The first selected energy is different than the second selected energy. Additional mono-energetic x-ray images may be generated at energies different than previous energies up to n selected energies. The mono-energetic x-ray images are mathematically combined and processed to form a result. The result of processing the mono-energetic x-ray images is presented. The result comprises processed mono-energetic x-ray image data describing materials in the object with greater sensitivity, identifying the layers, and identifying the material composition than in the first image or the second image. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100135463 | X-ray image obtaining/imaging apparatus and method - An X-ray image obtaining/imaging apparatus and method. An X-ray image may be obtained using an X-ray sensor that is divided into pixel blocks including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel may respectively include a scintillator layer, with the scintillator layers having differing characteristics. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110150183 | DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING AT REDUCED SAMPLE RATES - The present disclosure relates to the generation of dual-energy X-ray data using a data sampling rate comparable to the rate utilized for single-energy imaging. In accordance with the present technique a reduced kVp switching rate is employed compared to conventional dual-energy imaging. Full angular resolution is achieved in the generated images. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20160033654 | PHOTON-COUNTING TYPE X-RAY CT APPARATUS - Provided is a photon-counting type X-ray CT apparatus according to embodiments including a detector, a first collecting unit, a second collecting unit, and an image reconstruction unit. The detector detects an X-ray and outputs a signal. The first collecting unit collects count data of photons of the X-ray for every energy band with a predetermined time width by using the signal output from the detector. The second collecting unit corrects integration data obtained by integrating the signal with the predetermined time width by using the signal output from the detector. The image reconstruction unit corrects the count data by using the integration data. The image reconstruction unit generates a reconstructed image by performing a reconstructing process on the corrected count data. | 02-04-2016 |
| 378980110 | With image subtraction | 4 |
| 20090285361 | Energy substraction method and apparatus - The energy subtraction apparatus of the present invention comprises an image input device which inputs two or more different kinds of radiographic images having been taken by irradiating a subject with radiation rays with different radiation qualities, an information of body part acquisition device which designates a information of body part, a motion compensation processing device which performs a registration process by compensating for shift between corresponding points between the two or more different kinds of radiographic images due to movement of the subject, a subtraction device which performs an energy subtraction process on the two or more different kinds of radiographic images, and an operation mode switching device which switches an operation mode of the registration process at the motion compensation processing device depending on the information of body part. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090323896 | Energy subtraction processing apparatus, method, and radiation image diagnosis system - In energy subtraction processing, grid information representing grid use conditions at the time of imaging operations for a plurality of radiation images of an object is acquired. Weight factors are adjusted in accordance with the grid information, which has been acquired. A weighted addition or subtraction process is performed on corresponding pixels in the plurality of the radiation images of the object by use of the weight factors, which have thus been adjusted. A constituent image representing a predetermined constituent in the object is thus formed. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100020933 | DARK CORRECTION FOR DIGITAL X-RAY DETECTOR - A method of forming an offset-corrected exposure image includes obtaining an initial exposure image and exposure metadata related to the initial exposure image. An intermediate offset-corrected exposure image is formed by obtaining one or more dark images associated with the initial exposure image and subtracting an averaged value of the one or more dark images from the initial exposure image. The offset-corrected exposure image is obtained by combining an offset adjustment map with the intermediate offset-corrected exposure image. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20160038112 | DETERMINING A RESIDUAL MODE IMAGE FROM A DUAL ENERGY IMAGE - A digital image ( | 02-11-2016 |
