A61B 6/52
Devices using data or image processing specially adapted for radiation diagnosis
Official title: {Devices using data or image processing specially adapted for radiation diagnosis}
A61B6/52 (Devices using data or image processing specially adapted for radiation diagnosis) appears on 9,091 US grants and 11,745 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 9,091
- Published applications
- 11,745
- Assignees
- 1,917
- Inventors
- 13,305
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 18 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 19 | 0 |
| 2000 | 29 | 0 |
| 2001 | 31 | 13 |
| 2002 | 46 | 49 |
| 2003 | 39 | 76 |
| 2004 | 39 | 98 |
| 2005 | 48 | 125 |
| 2006 | 80 | 127 |
| 2007 | 52 | 164 |
| 2008 | 78 | 188 |
| 2009 | 94 | 203 |
| 2010 | 112 | 230 |
| 2011 | 132 | 286 |
| 2012 | 186 | 403 |
| 2013 | 224 | 448 |
| 2014 | 336 | 593 |
| 2015 | 406 | 711 |
| 2016 | 477 | 823 |
| 2017 | 568 | 763 |
| 2018 | 692 | 785 |
| 2019 | 763 | 797 |
| 2020 | 817 | 868 |
| 2021 | 709 | 829 |
| 2022 | 713 | 764 |
| 2023 | 655 | 704 |
| 2024 | 657 | 704 |
| 2025 | 591 | 600 |
| 2026 | 376 | 394 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61B 6/5211Involving processing of medical diagnostic data6,004
- A61B 6/5205Involving processing of raw data to produce diagnostic data2,469
- A61B 6/5258Involving detection or reduction of artifacts or noise2,292
- A61B 6/5294Involving using additional data447
- A61B 6/5288Involving retrospective matching to a physiological signal395
Recent patents
- Wide angle automatic exposure control in tomosynthesis6 Oct 2026US 12,751,676 B2Hologic, Inc.
- X-ray CT apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,751,677 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Systems and methods for image acquisition6 Oct 2026US 12,751,683 B2Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- Providing adjusted recording parameters6 Oct 2026US 12,751,684 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- Systems and methods for generating customized control boundaries6 Oct 2026US 12,751,767 B2MAKO Surgical Corp.
- System and method for instant and automatic border detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305950 A1Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- System and method for instant and automatic border detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305951 A1Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation
- Systems and methods for extracting vertebral bodies from two-dimensional image data and classifying fracture8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306039 A1University of Washington
- System and method for an automated measurement of ossification of an iliac crest apophyses of the ilium of a pelvic bone for the assessment of risser stages8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306040 A1Siemens Healthineers AG
- Evaluation of current state of coronary arteries using machine learning8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306041 A1Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
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- Method and apparatuses for assisting a diagnosing practitioner with describing the location of a target structure in a breast757US 9,962,129 B2Siemens Healthcare GmbH · 2018
- Surgical navigation systems including reference and localization frames695US 6,490,467 B1Surgical Navigation Technologies, Inc. · 2002