Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Klaus Finkler

Stefan Böhm

Reiner Staab

Thomas Schirl

Kurt Grapengeter

Martin Spahn

Marcus Pfister

Bernhard Geiger

Reiner Franz Schulz

Volker Heer

Johann Seissl

Hans-Dieter Wolf

Reiner E Schulz

The invention relates to a method for determining a position for at least one semi-transparent diaphragm during a radiological observation of a body region of a patient by means of a radiological facility, in particular during an observation accompanying an interventional measure, comprising: producing at least one radiological image recording and/or a sequence of image recordings by means of the radiological facility; analyzing the image recording and/or the sequence of image recordings by means of automatic image processing by a computing facility for identifying less absorbent image regions which may be present; and automatically determining the position for the at least one semi-transparent diaphragm as a function of the image analysis result by means of the computing facility.

Method for determining a position for at least one semi-transparent diaphragm and associated facility

Modern image processing systems for the postprocessing of X-ray images require a large number of input parameters and take a great deal of time. So that calculations do not need to be made sequentially for different sets of input parameters, parallel processors are used, in which the same image processing program is executed in each case, but with different input parameters in each case. A large number of processed X-ray images is thus obtained, which in particular can also be displayed simultaneously. From the multiple processed x-ray images, a repeated postprocessing of a processed x-ray image can take place by mixing.

Method for providing variously processed image data and X-ray image system

The present invention relates to a method, which assists a doctor for instance in orientation in 2D fluoroscopy images. The present invention relates here to a method for displaying co-registered 2D-3D images in medical imaging, comprising the following steps: determine a 3D or 2D projection which is congruent with a 2D image from a 3D image data set, and overlaid display of the 2D image with the 3D or 2D projection on a monitor, characterized in that the two image parts of the two overlaid images can be adjusted and a shift in the two overlaid images which can be adjusted in at least one direction is enabled.

Method for the improved display of co-registered 2D-3D images in medical imaging

In a computer-assisted method for detecting diaphragm edges caused in an image by a diaphragm, the image and information about an inner structure of the diaphragm are provided to a computer. The computer first detects all image edges that are present in the image. Using the information about the inner structure of the diaphragm, it then determines the diaphragm edges from among the detected image edges.

Computer-assisted detection method for diaphragm edges caused in an image by a diaphragm

To guarantee a largely uncorrupted x-ray image for a solid-state detector with a pixel matrix featuring pixel elements comprising at least two plate elements arranged in one plane, whereby a first and a second plate element exhibit a displacement in relation to one another, a correction method is provided, whereby a digital raw x-ray image is read out from the pixel matrix and a discontinuity generated in the digital raw x-ray image by the displacement of the plate elements in relation to each other is removed at least partly from the image by an image processing correction. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention the second plate element has a displacement from the first plate element and the discontinuity generated is removed at least partly by an image processing correction from the section of the digital x-ray image which is formed by the pixel elements of the displaced second plate element.

Correction method for solid-state detectors and solid-state detector

A planar image detector for electromagnetic radiation has radiation-sensitive pixel elements arranged in a matrix that has a surface with active pixels for imaging and a surface with correction pixels, not exposed to the radiation for generating correction signals, and with contact surfaces next to the surfaces with the pixels. The surface with the correction pixels is arranged in a different plane from the surface with the active pixels and at one of the sides of the image detector with the contact surfaces of the active pixels.

Planar image detector for electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays

A diagnostic radiography system has an X-ray generator for emitting an X-ray beam, a planar X-tray image converter with a sensor unit with photosensitive pixel elements that are arranged in a matrix and, arranged behind the sensor unit in the direction of radiation, a back-illumination which is formed by elements that are arranged in a matrix are connected to a control device. When the back-illumination is switched on, the output signal of the sensor unit is measured, and the elements of the back-illumination are triggered individually by the control device for homogenization in the sense of producing a uniform output signal.

Diagnostic radiography system with a flat x-ray image converter with back-illumination

In a method for correcting the image errors arising during an x-ray diagnostic measurement from the memory effect of a radiation-sensitive structure, particularly in the form of a photodiode array, of a solid-state detector which receiving the x-rays, given a change in the operating mode with a change of the radiation dose, a correction image is determined that is subtracted from the detector image obtained from the solid-state detector. For determining the correction image, at least one image signal supplied by the solid-state detector substantially immediately before or after the change in the operating mode, and thus the change of the radiation dose, is registered, this being subsequently weighted with at least one decay curve measured substantially synchronously with the pick-up of at least the image signal supplied immediately before the change, and substantially corresponding to the chronological decay behavior of the electrical charge in the radiation-sensitive structure of the solid-state detector of the image signal.

Method for correcting image errors in an x-ray image, and x-ray

An apparatus for the reproduction of video signals on a monitor has a circuit connected with the monitor for the conversion of grayscale values of a video signal. The apparatus has a computing unit connected to the conversion circuit which, on the basis of a statistical evaluation of the grayscale distribution, recalculates the standard used for the conversion of the grayscale values so that in the display of an image on the monitor the dynamic range within a region of interest is completely utilized. The conversion circuit is supplied with the calculated, corrected values for the conversion from the calculating unit.

Apparatus for reproducing video signals on a monitor

X-ray diagnostic apparatus is disclosed having a video camera, at least one image memory, a differential stage to produce substraction images by forming the difference between a stored video signal and a video signal chronologically following the former signal, an evaluation circuit for the time evaluation of changes in the subtraction images, and a video monitor. The evaluation circuit includes a time memory for storing information about the chronological flow of the radiographic contrast medium. The evaluation circuit also includes an additional circuit that repeatedly scans the information stored in the time memory and reproduces only those of the image points on the monitor whose information meet a specified criterion. The value of this criterion is increased step-by-step.

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Spardorf, Germany

Klaus Finkler