General Electric Company

Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Bl Technologies, Inc.

Vasile Bogdan Neculaes

Antonio Caiafa

Andrew Soliz Torres

Allen Lawrence Garner

John Scott Price

Uwe Wiedmann

Andrew Thomas Cross

Sergio Lemaitre

Carey Shawn Rogers

Marshall Gordon Jones

Joseph Darryl Michael

Fulton Jose Lopez

Yun Zou

Louis Paul Inzinna

Brian Duh-Lan Lee

Nidhishri Tapadia

David Wagner

Steve Buresh

Brian Dun-Lan Lee

Yang Cao

Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man

Juan J Becerra

Mark Alan Frontera

Kenneth Roger Conway

Xi Zhang

Jack Mathew Webster

Ye Bai

Steve Lambert Klopman

Christine Angela Morton

Alok Mani Srivastava

Peter Michael Edic

Holly Ann Comanzo

Ge Wang

John Eric Tkaczyk

Mark Ernest Vermilyea

Robert John Filkins

Peter William Lorraine

Xiaolei Shi

Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo

Robert F Senzig

James William Bray

John Frederick Graf

Wenxiang Cong

David Edwin Budinger

Thomas Robert Raber

Yong Liang

Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov

David M Polizzotti

Remy Klausz

Ian Strider Hunt

Yongjae Lee

Vance Scott Robinson

Siavash Yazdanfar

George Theodore Dalakos

Brian Michael Davis

Laurent Cretegny

Nilesh Tralshawala

Lin Fu

Tomas Eriksson

Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz

Ahmad Nadeem Ishaque

James William Sears

Dmitry Vladimirovich Dylov

Evelina Roxana Loghin

Ashraf Said Atalla

Gregory Boverman

Peter Andras Zavodszky

William Chester Platt

Alexander Kagan

Aghogho Atemu Obi

Abdul Rafi Khwaja

Chulmin Joo

Sam Joseph Camardello

Matthew Alan Petersen

Seog Tae Kim

Sarah Lillian Katz

Pierre Fernand Habig

Brian Christopher Moore

Nicole Evelyn LaPlante

Holly Sue Shulman

Morgana Lynn Fall

Shawn Michael Allan

Juan Jose Becerra

Various systems and methods are provided for a biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same. In one example, a cathode assembly of an X-ray tube comprises an emitter assembly including an emitter coupled to an emitter support structure, and an electrode assembly including an electrode stack and a plurality of bias electrodes. The emitter assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together. The electrode assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together, and the emitter assembly being coupled to the electrode assembly.

Biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same

A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.

Systems and methods for electron beam focusing in electron beam additive manufacturing

Methods and systems for releasing growth factors are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a blood sample is exposed to a sequence of one or more electric pulses to trigger release of a growth factor in the sample. In certain embodiments, the growth factor release is not accompanied by clotting within the blood sample.

Platelet activation and growth factor release using electric pulses

Biased cathode assembly of an x-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same

Various methods and systems are provided for stationary CT imaging. In one embodiment, a modular imaging system comprises a plurality of distributed x-ray units releasably coupled to a plurality of detector arrays, with the plurality of distributed x-ray units and the plurality of detector arrays forming a self-supporting structure including a central opening shaped to receive a subject to be imaged. The modular imaging system may image the subject without rotation of the distributed x-ray units or detector arrays around the subject.

Systems and methods for a stationary CT imaging system

Various methods and systems are provided for stationary computed tomography (CT) imaging. In one embodiment, a stationary CT system includes one or more detector arrays extending around at least a portion of an imaging volume, a stationary distributed x-ray source unit comprising a plurality of emitters including a first set of emitters configured to operate at a first voltage and a second set of emitters configured to operate at a second voltage, different than the first voltage, and a source controller for triggering the first set of emitters for acquiring first projection data by the one or more detector arrays and triggering the second set of emitters for acquiring second projection data by the one or more detector arrays, the first projection data and the second projection data usable to reconstruct one or more basis material composition images or monochromatic images of an object within the imaging volume.

The present disclosure relates to the generation of an activated platelet product in which one or more of the presence or absence of clots, the timing of clot formation (if present), and/or the mechanical strength of clots (if present) is controlled by the presence or concentration of calcium ions during the activation process. In certain embodiments, the calcium ion concentration is controlled in the presence of pulsed electric fields or a chemical activator (e.g., thrombin) as part of the activation process.

Calcium controlled activation of platelets via electrical stimulation

In accordance with the present disclosure, exposure of a sample to one or more electric pulses via capacitive coupling is described. In certain embodiments, the sample may be a biological sample to be treated or modified using the pulsed electric fields. In certain embodiments, the electric pulses may be delivered to a load using capacitive coupling. In other embodiments, the electric pulses may be bipolar pulses.

Electric pulse generation system using capacitive coupling

Various methods and systems are provided for an x-ray imaging system. In one example, a method for decelerating a rotor of an x-ray tube of an imaging system includes controlling and/or monitoring a speed and position of the rotor, passing the rotor through a first position where a force exerted on the rotor, is less than Earth's gravitational pull, the force due to a combination of gravity and radial acceleration, and initiating a predefined deceleration profile to decelerate the rotor to a halt when the x-ray tube passes through the first position.

Methods for x-ray tube rotors with speed and/or position control

Various methods and systems are provided for an x-ray imaging system. In one example, an x-ray tube of the imaging system includes a rotor with a core forming a continuous unit with at least one of a retention sleeve and a bearing assembly sleeve. The rotor further includes one or more magnets disposed in the core and maintained in place by the retention sleeve.

Methods and systems for a magnetic motor X-ray assembly

Disclosed herein are multi-cuvette cartridges, flow cells, and electrical pulse systems for treatment of large volumes of biological samples with pulsed electric fields. The multi-cuvette cartridges systems may include mechanical motors for automatic positioning and alignment between the cuvettes and the electrodes of the electrical pulse systems. The flow cell systems may include fluidic systems, such as pumps, nozzles and valves, which may operate in coordination with the electrical systems for efficient exposition of biological samples. Embodiments having flow cell systems that allow 'on-demand' production of activated sample are also disclosed.

System and method for electric pulse based activation of biological samples

Methods and systems for generating a tunable or customizable activated product composition are related. In certain embodiments, one or more of electric pulse parameters, flow rate, or sample container size are varied so as to generate the activated product composition. The activated product composition may be customized or optimized based for a particular patient or procedure.

Activated platelet composition with tunable growth factor level

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Vasile Bogdan Neculaes