Abstract:
An X-ray detecting apparatus for the detection and localisation of ionising X-ray or gamma radiation in radiography, the apparatus comprising: an X-ray detector including: conversion means for converting incident x-ray photons of an incident x- ray photon beam into detectable electrical charges; and amplification means for amplifying the electrical charges in the detector by an non-linear amplification gain factor the non-linear amplification gain being characterised by a decrease in amplification gain at high fluxes of incident x-ray photons; and amplification gain adjustment means configured to vary the amplification gain of the amplification means according to the emission parameters of an x-ray source providing the incident x-ray photon beam for the radiographic examination to be performed and/or the transmitted beam received by the detector from the x-ray source via the subject being imaged. A radiographic imaging device and a method of operating the radiographic imaging device are also presented.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a gas avalanche detector for detecting and locating X-ray or gamma ray ionizing radiation in radiographic imaging, the detector comprising: a gas enclosure (10) provided with an admission window (FE) for admitting a beam (FX) of incident X-ray photons; an intermediate plane electrode (12) placed in said gas enclosure (10) between two end plane electrodes (11, 13) and held parallel to the two end plane electrodes (11, 13); the configuration of the end plane electrodes (11, 13) and of the intermediate plane electrode (12) forming an amplification space (20), the amplification space (20) also constituting a conversion space in which the incident X-ray photons (FX) are convertible into electrical charges, the electrical charges being made up of primary electrons and of corresponding ions; the intermediate electrode (12) being operable at an electrical potential relative to the electrical potentials of the end electrodes (11, 13) suitable for generating an electric field that causes the primary electrons to be multiplied by the avalanche phenomenon in the amplification space (20) in the vicinity of the intermediate electrode (12); one of the end electrodes (13) being configured as a collector electrode for picking up the electrical signals induced by the ions; and said admission window (FE) being placed level with the amplification space (20) between the intermediate plane electrode (12) and said collector electrode (13) to admit said photon beam between the intermediate plane electrode (12) and said collector electrode (13). The invention also relates to a radiographic imaging device including such a gas detector.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a medical imaging conversion method, automatically converting: at least one or more real x-ray images (16) of a patient, including at least a first anatomical structure (21) of said patient and a second anatomical structure (22) of said patient, into at least one digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) (23) of said patient representing said first anatomical structure (24) without representing said second anatomical structure (26), by a single operation using either one convolutional neural network (CNN) or a group of convolutional neural networks (CNN) (27) which is preliminarily trained to, both or simultaneously: differentiate said first anatomical structure (21) from said second anatomical structure (22), and convert a real x-ray image (16) into at least one digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) (23).
Abstract:
This invention relates to a radiological imaging method comprising: 2 radiation sources with imaging directions orthogonal to each other, performing vertical scanning of a standing patient (20) along a vertical scanning direction (Z), wherein said radiological method comprises at least one operating mode in which: a frontal scout view is made so as to identify a specific bone(s) localization (21) within said frontal scout view, driving current intensity modulation (11) of said frontal radiation source, depending on patient thickness and on said identified specific bone(s) localization (21) along said vertical scanning direction (Z), is performed automatically, so as to improve a compromise between: lowering the global radiation dose received by a patient (20) during said vertical scanning, while keeping at a sufficient level the local image contrasts of said identified specific bone(s) localization (21) at different imaging positions along said vertical scanning direction (Z), for the frontal image.
Abstract:
A radiological imaging method including: 2 radiation sources with imaging directions orthogonal to each other, performing vertical scanning of a standing patient along a vertical scanning direction, wherein the radiological method includes at least one operating mode in which: a frontal scout view is made so as to identify a specific bone(s) localization within the frontal scout view, both driving current intensity and voltage intensity modulations of the frontal radiation source, depending on patient thickness and on the identified specific bone(s) localization along the vertical scanning direction, are performed simultaneously, preferably synchronously, and automatically, so as to improve a compromise between: lowering the global radiation dose received by a patient during the vertical scanning, and increasing the local image contrasts of the identified specific bone(s) localization at different imaging positions along the vertical scanning direction, for the frontal image.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a radiological apparatus comprising: a gantry (10) encapsulated within a cover (11), a patient platform (40), 2 radiation sources (20, 30) with imaging directions (D1, d2) orthogonal to each other, sliding vertically so as to perform vertical scanning of a patient standing on said platform (40), wherein: said gantry cover (11) top view is L shaped, each of said 2 radiation sources (20, 30): is located: outside said L shaped gantry cover (11), inside angular sector (AS) of said L, and is encapsulated within a cover (21, 31) sliding vertically with said radiation source (20, 30) it encapsulates, and wherein said radiological apparatus also comprises: a first security device (51, 52) stopping said vertical scanning, when it detects a patient body part going outside a first predetermined area, so as to avoid collision between said patient body part and said vertically sliding radiation sources covers (21, 31), and a second security device (61, 62) stopping said vertical scanning, when it detects presence of an object or of a person external to said radiological apparatus within a second predetermined area, so as to avoid collision between said object or person and said vertically sliding radiation sources covers (21, 31).
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method of radiography of an organ of a patient, comprising: first vertical scanning and said second vertical scanning being performed synchronously, wherein a computed correction is processed on both first and second raw images, on at least part of patient scanned height, for at least overweight or obese patients, so as to reduce, between first and second corrected images, cross-scattering existing between said first and second raw images, and wherein said computed correction processing on both said first and second raw images comprises: a step (32, 33, 34) of making a patient specific modeling, using as patient specific data therefore at least both first and second raw images, preferably mainly both first and second raw images, more preferably only both first and second raw images, a step (34, 35) of determining a patient specific representation of radiation scattering by said patient specific modeling, a step (36) of processing said patient specific radiation scattering representation on both said first and second raw images so as to get said first and second corrected images.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a surgery control tool: being no patient implant, comprising: an elongated body (7, 37) having the shape and the size of a spinal correction rod, end contact parts (9, 39) being able to contact a patient implanted spinal correction rod implant (12, 13), spacers (8, 38) extending from said elongated body (7, 37) towards said end contact parts (9, 39).
Abstract:
This invention relates to a surgery planning tool: being no patient implant, comprising an elongated body (9, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69) including: at least a portion having the shape and the size of a spinal correction rod (12, 13).
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method of preoperative planning to correct spine (1) misalignment of a patient, comprising a step of making a translation and a rotation, in a sagittal plane, of each vertebra (2) of a set of several cervical and/or thoracic (T1-T12) and/or lumbar (L1-L5) imaged spine vertebrae (2), so that said set of imaged vertebrae (2) presents afterwards, in the sagittal plane, the same cervical lordosis and/or the same thoracic kyphosis and/or the same lumbar lordosis as a model adapted for said patient, wherein it also comprises, before said step of making said translation and said rotation in a sagittal plane: a step of making a translation and a rotation, in a coronal plane, of each vertebra (2) of said set of several cervical and/or thoracic (T1-T12) and/or lumbar (L1-L5) imaged spine vertebrae (2), so that said set of imaged vertebrae (2) becomes straight in said coronal plane, and of making a rotation, in an axial plane, of each vertebra (2) of said set of several cervical and/or thoracic (T1-T12) and/or lumbar (L1-L5) imaged spine vertebrae (2), so that said set of imaged vertebrae (2) becomes axially aligned.