Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.

General Electric Company

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wuhan United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.

Xu Chu

Guoping Zhu

Jinglin Wu

Tieshan Zhang

Bin Cao

Siming Chen

Peng Zhang

Jifeng Chen

Yinqi Wang

Pengju Kang

Fei Xu

Heng Wu

Baoming Huang

Mingyu Xue

Biao Luo

Bobin Tong

Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo

Yunfeng Liu

Hui Zhu

Yudong Zhu

Philippe Ernest

Patrick Joseph Kling

Saijun Mao

Wei Wang

Denis Perrillat-Amede

Niranjan Kumar

Jiawen Zhou

Fan Zhao

Xing Yang

Teck Beng Desmond Yeo

Jing Wu

Zhihui Shu

Haicong Zhang

The present disclosure relates to a high voltage generator including multiple high voltage generating modules configured to provide a total voltage. Each of the multiple high voltage generating modules may be configured to receive a driving pulse and generate a voltage component of the total voltage according to the driving pulse. The multiple high voltage generating modules may be in a series connection. Time points when the multiple high voltage generating modules receive driving pulses may be different, and waveforms of the driving pulses may be the same.

Systems and methods for high voltage generation

Systems and methods for improving output stability of an RFPA. The systems may obtain an initial radio frequency signal to be amplified by the RFPA. The systems may also generate a compensated radio frequency signal by performing, based on a preset compensation rule and a set of compensation parameters, a gain compensation operation for the initial radio frequency signal. The set of compensation parameters may include a supply voltage of the RFPA and a transistor junction temperature of the RFPA. The systems may further generate, by performing a non-linear correction operation on the compensated radio frequency signal, a corrected radio frequency signal, which is transmitted to the RFPA.

Systems and methods for improving output stability of a radio frequency power amplifier by gain compensation and correction

The present disclosure provides an arcing detection device. The arcing detection device may include a detection coil and a processing circuit operably connected to the detection coil. The detection coil may be configured to detect a current variation of a system. The processing circuit may be configured to determine information of an arcing event of the system based on the current variation of the system. The information of the arcing event of the system may include a position where the arcing event occurs in the system.

Devices and methods for arcing detection

A method may include obtaining a feedback or a reference value of a tube voltage applied to a radiation source of a radiation device for generating radiation rays. The method may also include determining, based on the feedback or the reference value of the tube voltage, a specific value of a focusing parameter associated with a focusing device of the radiation device. The method may further include causing the focusing device to shape a focus of the radiation rays according to the determined value of the focusing parameter. The focus of the radiation rays may satisfy an operational constraint under the specific value of the focusing parameter.

Systems and methods for focus control in X-rays

A high voltage generator is provided. The high voltage generator includes an inverter circuit coupled to receive a direct-current (DC) input voltage, a resonant circuit coupled to the inverter circuit, a transformer coupled to the resonant circuit and also coupled to provide a high voltage output to a high voltage device, and a phase control circuit coupled to receive a voltage across and a current through the resonant circuit and also coupled to the inverter circuit. The phase control circuit generates control signals to drive the inverter circuit. The control signals drive the inverter circuit to keep the resonant circuit operating in an inductive region.

High voltage generator and control methods thereof

The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA) control device. The RFPA control device may include an input signal processing module configured to process an input signal into two signals. A first signal may be used for signal detection, and a second signal may be used for signal amplification. The RFPA control device may also include a delay module. The delay module may be disposed between the input signal processing module and an adjustment module. The delay module may be configured to determine a delay of the second signal such that the second signal and the control signal roughly simultaneously reach the adjustment module.

Radio frequency power amplifier control device

Gradient power amplifier (GPA) systems and methods are provided. A GPA system may include a plurality of paralleled GPAs; and at least one controller operably coupled to the plurality of paralleled GPAs. The at least one controller may be configured to perform operations including: obtaining a total current parameter of the plurality of paralleled GPAs; determining, based on the total current parameter and a target current parameter, a first difference value; and determining, based on the first difference value, a first control parameter of a first GPA of the plurality of paralleled GPAs, wherein the first control parameter is configured to control an output current of the first GPA.

Gradient power amplifier systems and methods

Systems and methods for focus control in x-rays

Systems and methods for medical imaging. The method may include acquiring a tube voltage switching waveform for a radiation source of a medical device. The method may include determining a tube current switching period based on the tube voltage switching waveform. The method may include determining a sampling period correlated with the tube current switching period. The method may include acquiring projection data according to the sampling period. The method may further include reconstructing an image based on the acquired projection data.

Systems and methods for medical imaging

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for energy imaging. The method may include obtaining a reference waveform of a tube voltage of a radiation source of a scanner. The reference waveform may be formed based on a superposition of a sine wave and one or more harmonics corresponding to the sine wave. The method may include causing a high voltage generator to generate the tube voltage changing between a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage according to the reference waveform. The tube voltage may be provided to the radiation source for generating radiation rays. The method may further include causing the scanner to perform energy imaging.

Systems and methods for X-ray imaging

The present application discloses a gradient power amplifier debugging method and system. The method may comprise initializing a control unit of the gradient power amplifier debugging system; retrieving a characteristic output of the control unit; computing a load inductance parameter L according to the characteristic output; and adjusting the control parameter of the control unit according to the load inductance parameter L. The control unit may comprise a close-loop control sub-unit, or a feedforward control sub-unit. The characteristic output may be representative of the difference between an output signal and an input signal of the gradient power amplifier debugging system. The control parameter may comprise a proportional coefficient, an integral coefficient, or a cutoff frequency of the filter.

Method and system for gradient power amplifier debugging

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