Xoran Technologies, Inc.

Miodrag Rakic

Predrag Sukovic

Joseph Webster Stayman

Neal H Clinthorne

James A Bertolina

Dejan Teofilovic

William Van Kampen

David Phillipe Sarment

Michael Thomas Kusner, Jr

Neal Clinthome

Lauren Long

Francisco Gomez Ruiz

David Sarment

Andrew J Custer

Andrew Custer

An imaging system includes components to allow the system to be compact, highly transportable, and capture images in non-conventional settings. An imaging device includes an exoskeleton configured to house and provide structural support for an x-ray source and a detector and a spindle structure protruding from an outer surface of the exoskeleton. The imaging device also includes an x-ray source and a detector affixed to an internal surface of the exoskeleton and a rotation motor configured to rotate the exoskeleton about the spindle structure.

Compact imaging device and system

A computed tomography system is disclosed with a gantry assembly and a base assembly. The gantry assembly having a x-ray source, and a x-ray imager. The base assembly is configured to receive power and provide mechanical stability. A connection interface is located between the gantry assembly and the base assembly. The connection interface is configured to mechanically lock the gantry assembly to the base assembly and provide power to the gantry assembly through the base assembly.

Modular and configurable computed tomography scanning assembly

A CT scanner includes a pair of shields to protect an operator from x-rays from the CT scanner. The CT scanner has a gantry that provides structural support and housing for the components including an x-ray source and a detector arranged on the gantry to face one another. Lead shields are located on opposing sides of the x-ray source and extend between the x-ray source and the detector. The CT scanner further includes a computer located on an opposing side of the gantry from the x-ray source and the detector. The lead shields rotate with the gantry and prevent the x-ray from reaching the operator while the CT scanner is in operation.

Self-shielded CT scanner

A first laser device and a second laser device direct a laser beam towards a patient before a CT scan to visually indicate an outer boundary of an area where x-rays will be directed during the CT scan. Each laser device includes a prism that deflects the laser beams to form lines on the patient that define an outer boundary of an area of the patient that will be exposed to the x-rays. If the area of the patient between the lines is not the desired area, the operator can move the patient until the desired area of the patient is located between the lines. A third laser device can direct a laser beam to define an outer boundary that is used to ensure proper orientation of the patient in the space.

CT scanner including device to visually indicate area of CT scan

A CT scanner is reconfigurable to multiple orientations and positions. The scanner includes a gantry on which the x-ray source and x-ray detector are mounted. The gantry is mounted on a support and is rotatable about a scan axis relative to the support. The support is movable and/or pivotable relative to a frame, such that the scan axis can be vertical or horizontal.

Reconfigurable computer tomography scanner

A surgical navigation system includes a CT scanner that takes a plurality of x-ray images of a patient. A patient tracker including locators is attached to the patient, and a registration appendage is removably secured to the patient tracker in a known position and orientation. The registration appendage includes radio-opaque markers arranged in a predetermined geometric pattern. The registration appendage is viewable in a CT scan in situations where the locators of the patient tracker are outside of a field of view of the CT scanner.

Surgical navigation system including patient tracker with removable registration appendage

A CT scanner includes a gantry that supports and houses components of the CT scanner. A camera is mounted to the gantry. As the gantry rotates about an axis of rotation, the camera captures a photographic external image of the patient at a plurality of rotational positions. A computer generates a three dimensional external image from the plurality of external images. The three dimensional external image is registered relative to a three dimensional CT image generated from a plurality of x-ray images.

CT scanner including a camera to obtain external images of a patient

A CT scanner system provides projection-like images of a patient volume. After a CT scan is obtained and a three-dimensional model of the patient is created, any synthetic view can be generated by choosing any array of projection lines, e.g. between a point and a surface (a flat plane, curved plane, spherical, etc) or between two surfaces (parallel or not) and summing across the projection lines. The synthetic projections can mimic certain traditional views, such as a ceph scan, Water's view, Caldwell's projection, etc or can provide a new view that is impossible or impractical with traditional x-ray equipment, such as a perfect parallel projection, or a projection that does not pass all the way through the patient.

CT system with synthetic view generation

A CT scanning system provides the ability to scan a patient's lower extremities while the patent is upright, i.e. either standing on the foot, or at least putting some load on the foot, or with the ankle at a given angle. The CT scanning system provides a generally horizontal upper support surface on which the patient's foot is supported. A gantry supporting an x-ray source and x-ray detector are rotated about a z-axis through the support surface. With the CT scanning system, the patient's lower extremities can be scanned while under load.

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Miodrag Rakic