A61B 5/0033
Features or image-related aspects of imaging apparatus
Official title: {Features or image-related aspects of imaging apparatus, e.g. for MRI, optical tomography or impedance tomography apparatus; Arrangements of imaging apparatus in a room}
A61B5/0033 (Features or image-related aspects of imaging apparatus) appears on 5,177 US grants and 7,610 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Thermal bimetal actuators for use in non-magnetic medical devices6 Oct 2026US 12,751,623 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Recommender system using cognitive pre-testing to select optimal MRI scanning tasks6 Oct 2026US 12,751,624 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- System and method for detecting recurrence of a disease6 Oct 2026US 12,751,629 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Photoacoustic sensor using micromachined ultrasonic transducers6 Oct 2026US 12,751,631 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Method and apparatus for measuring intravascular blood flow using a backscattering contrast6 Oct 2026US 12,751,639 B2The General Hospital Corporation
- Systems and methods for medical procedures using optical coherence tomography sensing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305944 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mapping electrodes from magnetic resonance imaging (mri) data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305945 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Systems and methods for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305946 A1Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- Technologies For Three-Dimensional Spectroscopic Imaging Of Tissue Properties8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305948 A1Colgate-Palmolive Company
- System and method for determining a cardiomyocyte manganese ion uptake rate constant to indicate a t-tubule density1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294248 A1Ic Targets AS
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