G.e. Medical Systems, S.a.

R&eacute;gis Vaillant

Laurent Launay

Yves Lucien Trousset

Jean Lienard

Francisco Sureda

Erwan Kerrien

Yves Lucien Marie Trousset

Laurant Launay

Eric Maurincomme

Ren&eacute; Romeas

R&eacute;ne Romeas

Romain Boucherie

The invention concerns a method of three-dimensional image reconstruction from a set of acquired two-dimensional images. A subsampling is taken of the set of acquired two-dimensional images so as to reduce their resolution. A first analytical algorithm of three-dimensional image reconstruction from low-resolution (LR) acquired two-dimensional images is applied in order to obtain a low-resolution three-dimensional image. A reconstruction support is determined by selecting in the low-resolution three-dimensional image a set of particular voxels. One then applies a second analytical algorithm of three-dimensional image reconstruction from acquired two-dimensional images and considering only the voxels of the reconstruction support in order to obtain the high-resolution (HR) three-dimensional image.

Method of multiresolution reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of an object

Method of automatic registration of two- and three-dimensional angiography images by comparison of a two-dimensional digital subtracted angiography image with data on a three-dimensional image reconstructed from rotational angiography sequences, in which a field of distortions in the image is estimated, a conical projection matrix is estimated and an approximation is made of a rigid transformation in space equal to the difference between an initial registration based on the field of distortions and on the conical projection matrix and a perfect registration.

Method of automatic registration of images

A process for reconstructing a tridimensional image of an object moving with a substantially cyclic motion, for example the vessels of the human heart, in which, for an acquisition duration extending over several cycles of the movement of the object, an acquisitio of a plurality of initial digital radiographic images is performed using a snapshot apparatus rotating around the object. Initial images having the same temporal occurrence in the course of each cycle are selected respectively in successive cycles so as to form a group of images which is associated with this same temporal occurrence. Several different groups of initial images corresponding respectively to several different temporal occurrences are formed. An intermediate tridimensional representation of the object is reconstructed on the basis of each group of initial images and of an iterative image reconstruction algorithm. A law of spatial deformation between two intermediate tridimensional representations is formulated on the basis of the two intermediate tridimensional representations corresponding to two successive temporal occurrences, and a final tridimensional representation of the object is reconstructed on the basis of the initial images successively acquired, of the spatial deformation laws successively formulated and of an iterative image reconstruction algorithm.

Process for reconstructing a tridimensional image of a moving object

Several acquisitions of digital radiographic images of an element of interest are made, by using a moving camera rotating around the element of interest in a plane parallel to the plane of a section, a matching stage is carried out in which projected elements are located in all the acquired images, corresponding respectively to the projections of the element of interest in those acquired images. The width of each projected element is determined and the section of the element of interest is reconstructed from the different widths determined.

Method of reconstruction of a section of an element of interest

Method of controlling of a radiology device, of the type comprising a means of emission of an X-ray beam and a means of reception of the X-ray beam, after it has crossed a part of the object's body, in which a three-dimensional image of a part of the object's body is reconstructed from a series of two-dimensional films, two-dimensional views of the three-dimensional image are produced at different angles of incidence, the angle of incidence allowing the best visualization of the part of the object's body are selected, the angles of incidence are stored in memory, and the angles of incidence are supplied to the radiology device for its positioning with a view to an intervention or procedure on the part of the object's body under fluoroscopy allowing a visualization in real time of two-dimensional.

Method of positioning a radiographic device

The invention concerns a method of reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of elements of sharp contrast from a set of two-dimensional images of an object comprising the elements of sharp contrast. For each different position of an X-ray camera around the object, a two-dimensional image is taken, and the use of an algorithm for reconstruction of the three-dimensional image is preceded by a stage of filtering of the set of two-dimensional images.

Method of reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of elements of sharp contrast

Method of reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of an element of interest comprises a phase of acquisition of digital radiographic images by rotation of an camera around the organ, a phase of marking the position of the element of interest from image to image, and a phase of reconstruction of the three-dimensional image of the element of interest from acquired images and positions of the element of interest successively located in the successive images.

Method of reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of an element of interest

A set of digital two-dimensional projected images of an object is acquired for different positions of a camera rotating around an object. The projected images are calibrated into a volume containing the object and divided into voxels, the space coordinates of which are identified in a chosen calibration frame of reference. A pretreatment is applied on each acquired image in order to elaborate a rectified image having a predetermined spatial orientation selected as a function of a chosen specific axis of the calibration frame of reference, and an iterative algorithm of algebraic image reconstruction between each rectified image and the set of voxels is applied by successively treating the voxels in a predetermined order linked to the choice of said specific axis, which makes it possible to minimize the duration of reconstruction of the three-dimensional image.

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Villebon sur Yvette, France

Régis Vaillant

Growing community of inventors

Villebon sur Yvette, France

R&eacute;gis Vaillant

Régis Vaillant