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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2017
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller, Buc, FR;
Pablo Milioni DeCarvalho, Buc, FR;
Ann-Katherine Carton, Buc, FR;
Giovanni Palma, Buc, FR;
Razvan Iordache, Buc, FR;
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 6/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/481 (2013.01); A61B 6/0414 (2013.01); A61B 6/06 (2013.01); A61B 6/42 (2013.01); A61B 6/4429 (2013.01); A61B 6/482 (2013.01); A61B 6/502 (2013.01); A61B 6/504 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of obtaining x-ray images includes controlling operation of an automatic injector to inject a contrast agent into a patient at a predetermined time, synchronizing operations of an x-ray imaging system with the operation of the automatic injector, and obtaining images of a region of interest of the patient during arterial and diffusion phases of the contrast agent.