Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Dennis Erwin Bos

Ravindra Bhat

Andrew J Buckler

Jan Van Eijk

Lyubomir Georgiev Zagorchev

Johan Cornelis Compter

Michel Gerardus Pardoel

Antonius Maria Rijken

Angelo Cesar Peter De Klerk

Thomas Petrus Hendricus Warmerdam

Arjan Franklin Bakker

Sait Izmit

Hubert Gerard Jean Joseph Amaury Vroomen

Franciscus Martinus Roes

Andrea Pasqualini

When quantifying neo-vasculature growth measured using a CT scanner (), a known blood voxel is identified and adjoining voxels are compared thereto by a quantifier () to determine whether they are blood voxels, in order to grow a 3D image of the blood vessels. A removable Hounsfield calibration phantom () is positioned in a subject support () and concurrently scanned with the subject during each scan, and a Hounsfield unit calibrator () automatically calibrates acquired CT data to the phantom. A transport system comprising a plurality of movement-arresting locations facilitates cheaply and repeatably locking a CT detector (), in six degrees of movement, at a plurality of locations in the scanner gantry.

System for quantification of neovasculature in CT volumes

A steering system () comprises two radially oppositely arranged drive wheels () for steering a tubular object () positioned between the drive wheels (). The drive wheels () each have a wheel rotation axis () and each include a plurality of rollers () distributed around the wheel rotation axis (). The rollers () are rotatably arranged, each roller having a roller rotation axis () and an outer drive face () concavely vaulted in a direction corresponding to its roller rotation axis (). The roller rotation axis () is obliquely oriented in relation to the wheel rotation axis () and the rollers () of each drive wheel () form together a steering periphery for the tubular object (). The steering system enables continues rotation of a tubular object without danger that the object will lose the contact with the rollers. The steering system () may be incorporated in a catheter system which comprises a catheter ().

Steering system and a catcher system

A method for moving a device () provided with a camera () to a desired position () by means of a control system (). The camera () is connected with the control system (). Pictures are taken by means of the camera during movement. The number of pictures processed per time unit by means of the control system () is increased when the distance between the device () and the desired position () becomes smaller.

Method of moving a device provided with a camera to a desired position by means of a control system, and such a system

A apparatus processes an object (), such as a semi-conductor wafer at accurately controlled positions. The object () is supported by a working platform () that is moveable along a path. A suspension actuator part () attached to the working platform (), contains a soft magnetic core () with poles facing the surface of a soft magnetic element () on the support structure along the path and a winding () for application of a current to generate a magnetic field that runs through the core () v the poles and returns via the soft magnetic element (). A sensor () senses a measured position of the suspension actuator part () relative to the position reference element (). A control circuit comprises an outer control circuit () and an inner control circuit (). The outer control circuit () receives a sensing result and determines force set point information to regulate the measured position of the actuator part () to a required value. The inner control circuit () receives the force set point information and controls the current to realize a force between the actuator part () and the support structure () according to the force set point information.

Apparatus for processing an object with high position accurancy

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Dennis Erwin Bos