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1. 发明授权

US09386936B2 Distributed microwave image processing system and method 有权
标题翻译：分布式微波图像处理系统及方法
公开(公告)号：US09386936B2
公开(公告)日：2016-07-12
申请号：US13798428
申请日：2013-03-13
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： William J. McCollough , Todd Robert McCollough
IPC分类号： A61B6/00 , A61B5/05 , G06F19/00 , A61B5/00
CPC分类号： A61B5/0507 , A61B5/0013 , A61B5/7271 , A61B5/742 , A61B2576/00 , G06F19/00 , G06F19/321 , G06F19/328
摘要： A distributed imaging system uses non-ionizing radiation in the form of microwaves to image the body. This non-ionizing radiation is safer for a patient than traditional x-rays. The majority of image processing takes place in a centralized computing environment which receives microwave image data from many remote data acquisition sites (such as imaging centers, radiology groups, and/or doctor's offices). The centralized computing environment is specially configured to receive microwave image data from many sites and produce microwave images based on the received microwave image data. The microwave images may then be sent back to the acquisition site and/or to other sites for viewing and evaluation. This relieves the image data acquisition site of the burden and expense of having specialized high speed computer equipment that is necessary to produce microwave images. Because the computing environment collects and stores information (data and results) from many data acquisition sites in one central location, the prior results from all of the acquisition sites can be accessed and used to enhance processing and diagnosis.
摘要翻译：分布式成像系统使用微波形式的非电离辐射来成像身体。这种非电离辐射对于患者而言比传统的x射线更安全。大多数图像处理发生在从许多远程数据采集站点（如成像中心，放射学组和/或医生办公室）接收微波图像数据的集中式计算环境中。集中式计算环境专门用于从许多站点接收微波图像数据，并根据收到的微波图像数据产生微波图像。然后可以将微波图像发送回采集站点和/或其他站点进行查看和评估。这样可以减轻图像数据采集位置的麻烦，并且需要专门的高速计算机设备来生产微波图像。由于计算环境在一个中心位置收集并存储了许多数据采集站点的信息（数据和结果），因此可以访问和使用所有采集站点的先前结果来加强处理和诊断。

2. 发明授权

US11355857B2 Directable antenna system and method for improved communications quality 有权
公开(公告)号：US11355857B2
公开(公告)日：2022-06-07
申请号：US15923209
申请日：2018-03-16
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： William J. McCollough , Arezou Edalati , Todd R. McCollough
IPC分类号： H04B1/06 , H01Q15/00 , H01Q3/24 , H01Q5/321 , H01Q3/44 , H04B7/08 , H04B7/02 , H04B7/0408 , H04B17/23 , H04B7/10 , H04B1/16 , H01Q19/18 , H04N5/455
摘要： A directable antenna system includes at least one directable antenna which has an omnidirectional antenna at a center, an inner frequency selective surface centered around the omnidirectional antenna, and an outer frequency selective surface spaced from the inner frequency selective surface. An antenna control unit can vary antenna beamwidth by changing states of active elements of the inner and the outer frequency selective surfaces. The system may include a searchable database, for example, to direct the antenna in the optimum direction for transmission and reception at a particular location. Transmission and/or reception data from a second directable antenna can be used to aim the first directable antenna.

3. 发明授权

US09704275B2 Dielectric encoding of medical images 有权
公开(公告)号：US09704275B2
公开(公告)日：2017-07-11
申请号：US14735607
申请日：2015-06-10
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： Todd R. McCollough , William J. McCollough
IPC分类号： G06K9/00 , G06T11/00 , G06T7/00 , A61B6/00 , G01R33/56 , G01R27/04 , A61B5/05 , G01N22/00 , G01R33/50
CPC分类号： G06T11/003 , A61B5/0507 , A61B6/5205 , A61B6/5211 , A61B6/563 , G01N22/00 , G01R33/50 , G01R33/5608 , G06F19/00 , G06T7/0014 , G06T11/005 , G06T2207/10072 , G06T2207/10116 , G06T2207/30024
摘要： Microwave imaging apparatus and method for completely imaging the human body (or portions thereof) in sufficient detail to render a timely and accurate medical diagnosis by trained medical professionals. The data conversion processes presented will not require physicians and radiologists to learn to use image data in a format they are not familiar with. Hounsfield encoded and/or MRI intensity encoded medical images in the DICOM format are provided from reconstructed dielectric images obtained from raw scattering data. This allows for the exchange of information created from microwave imaging techniques to be implemented with existing diagnostic tools and analysis techniques. Furthermore, methods are presented for converting image data with Hounsfield encoded units to an image with dielectric encoded units.

4. 发明授权

US10983209B2 Accurate signal compensations for UWB radar imaging in dispersive medium 有权
公开(公告)号：US10983209B2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-20
申请号：US15950496
申请日：2018-04-11
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： Wenyi Shao , William J. McCollough , Todd R. McCollough
IPC分类号： G01S13/89 , G01S13/02 , G01S13/88 , G01S7/295
摘要： A system for producing an image includes a MW (microwave) transmitter, configured to transmit a MW towards an object, and a MW receiver, configured to detect a MW signal received from the object. A processor is programmed to produce an image of the object by compensating both phase shifts and amplitude losses for frequency dependency in a plurality of detected MW signals.

5. 发明授权

US10436895B2 Phase confocal method for near-field microwave imaging 有权
公开(公告)号：US10436895B2
公开(公告)日：2019-10-08
申请号：US15342368
申请日：2016-11-03
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： Wenyi Shao , Todd R. McCollough , William J. McCollough , Arezou Edalati
IPC分类号： G01S13/89 , G01N22/00 , G01S17/89 , G01S13/88 , A61B5/05 , G01S15/89
摘要： An efficient RADAR imaging method that is able to detect an object within an interested area. This method uses electromagnetic waves transmitted by one or many transmitters to illuminate the interested area, and then estimates the phase shift of the scattered wave of an object according to the path that the electromagnetic wave propagated. By reversing the phase of the obtained scattered signal to the transmitters' position, an image is constructed for the entire interested area according to the correlation of signals in all channels. The present method works in the frequency domain. It produces a microwave image by using the phase and magnitude of the obtained signal, or using the phase information only. Other unique features include the way it synthesizes the signals obtained in multiple channels and at multiple frequencies. Its overwhelming high efficiency makes rapid microwave imaging and real-time imaging possible.

6. 发明申请

US20160287131A1 DISTRIBUTED MICROWAVE IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD 审中-公开
标题翻译：分布式微波图像处理系统及方法
公开(公告)号：US20160287131A1
公开(公告)日：2016-10-06
申请号：US15177511
申请日：2016-06-09
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： William J. McCollough , Todd R. McCollough
IPC分类号： A61B5/05 , G06F19/00 , A61B5/00
CPC分类号： A61B5/0507 , A61B5/0013 , A61B5/7271 , A61B5/742 , A61B2576/00 , G06F19/321 , G06F19/328
摘要： A distributed imaging system uses non-ionizing radiation in the form of microwaves to image the body. This non-ionizing radiation is safer for a patient than traditional x-rays. The majority of image processing takes place in a centralized computing environment which receives microwave image data from many remote data acquisition sites (such as imaging centers, radiology groups, and/or doctor's offices). The centralized computing environment is specially configured to receive microwave image data from many sites and produce microwave images based on the received microwave image data. The microwave images may then be sent back to the acquisition site and/or to other sites for viewing and evaluation. This relieves the image data acquisition site of the burden and expense of having specialized high speed computer equipment that is necessary to produce microwave images. Because the computing environment collects and stores information (data and results) from many data acquisition sites in one central location, the prior results from all of the acquisition sites can be accessed and used to enhance processing and diagnosis.
摘要翻译：分布式成像系统使用微波形式的非电离辐射来成像身体。这种非电离辐射对于患者而言比传统的x射线更安全。大多数图像处理发生在从许多远程数据采集站点（如成像中心，放射学组和/或医生办公室）接收微波图像数据的集中式计算环境中。集中式计算环境专门用于从许多站点接收微波图像数据，并根据收到的微波图像数据产生微波图像。然后可以将微波图像发送回采集站点和/或其他站点进行查看和评估。这样可以减轻图像数据采集位置的麻烦，并且需要专门的高速计算机设备来生产微波图像。由于计算环境在一个中心位置收集并存储了许多数据采集站点的信息（数据和结果），因此可以访问和使用所有采集站点的先前结果来加强处理和诊断。

7. 发明授权

US09869641B2 Microwave imaging device 有权
公开(公告)号：US09869641B2
公开(公告)日：2018-01-16
申请号：US15094368
申请日：2016-04-08
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： William J. McCollough , Todd R. McCollough , Wenyi Shao , Arezou Edalati , John Ryan Leslie
IPC分类号： G01R27/04 , G01R27/32 , G01N22/00 , G01R27/28 , G01R27/06 , G01R31/11 , G01R27/00
CPC分类号： G01N22/00 , A61B5/0507 , G01R27/00 , G01R27/04 , G01R27/06 , G01R27/28 , G01R31/11
摘要： A microwave (MW) system includes an object support adapted to support an object, a MW transmitter, a MW receiver, an outer rotation unit, an inner rotation unit, a controller and a computation processor. The outer rotation unit includes an outer ring, having a ring shape, with an outer ring mount, upon which one of either an antenna of the MW transmitter or an antenna of the MW receiver is mounted. The inner rotation unit comprises an inner ring, having a ring shape, with an inner ring mount, upon which the other of an antenna of the MW transmitter or an antenna of the MW receiver is mounted. The controller is configured to independently control both the rotation of the inner ring and the outer ring. The computation processor is configured to receive data including MW data representative of MW scattered field detected by the MW receiver.

8. 发明授权

US09111334B2 Dielectric encoding of medical images 有权
标题翻译：医学图像的介质编码
公开(公告)号：US09111334B2
公开(公告)日：2015-08-18
申请号：US14069661
申请日：2013-11-01
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： Todd R. McCollough , William J. McCollough
IPC分类号： G06K9/00 , G06T7/00 , G06T11/00 , G01R33/02 , A61B5/05
CPC分类号： G06T11/003 , A61B5/0507 , A61B6/5205 , A61B6/5211 , A61B6/563 , G01N22/00 , G01R33/50 , G01R33/5608 , G06F19/00 , G06T7/0014 , G06T11/005 , G06T2207/10072 , G06T2207/10116 , G06T2207/30024
摘要： Microwave imaging apparatus and method for completely imaging the human body (or portions thereof) in sufficient detail to render a timely and accurate medical diagnosis by trained medical professionals. The data conversion processes presented will not require physicians and radiologists to learn to use image data in a format they are not familiar with. Hounsfield encoded and/or MRI intensity encoded medical images in the DICOM format are provided from reconstructed dielectric images obtained from raw scattering data. This allows for the exchange of information created from microwave imaging techniques to be implemented with existing diagnostic tools and analysis techniques. Furthermore, methods are presented for converting image data with Hounsfield encoded units to an image with dielectric encoded units.
摘要翻译：微波成像装置和方法，用于对人体（或其部分）进行足够详细的成像，以便训练有素的医疗专业人员及时准确地进行医学诊断。所呈现的数据转换过程不需要医师和放射科医生学习以不熟悉的格式使用图像数据。从DICOM格式的Hounsfield编码和/或MRI强度编码的医学图像由从原始散射数据获得的重建的电介质图像提供。这允许利用现有的诊断工具和分析技术来实现利用微波成像技术创建的信息的交换。此外，提出了用Hounsfield编码单元将图像数据转换为具有介质编码单元的图像的方法。

9. 发明申请

US20150125054A1 DIELECTRIC ENCODING OF MEDICAL IMAGES 有权
标题翻译：医学图像的电介质编码
公开(公告)号：US20150125054A1
公开(公告)日：2015-05-07
申请号：US14069661
申请日：2013-11-01
申请人： ELLUMEN, INC.
发明人： Todd R. McCollough , William J. McCollough
IPC分类号： G06T7/00 , G06T11/00
CPC分类号： G06T11/003 , A61B5/0507 , A61B6/5205 , A61B6/5211 , A61B6/563 , G01N22/00 , G01R33/50 , G01R33/5608 , G06F19/00 , G06T7/0014 , G06T11/005 , G06T2207/10072 , G06T2207/10116 , G06T2207/30024
摘要： Microwave imaging apparatus and method for completely imaging the human body (or portions thereof) in sufficient detail to render a timely and accurate medical diagnosis by trained medical professionals. The data conversion processes presented will not require physicians and radiologists to learn to use image data in a format they are not familiar with. Hounsfield encoded and/or MRI intensity encoded medical images in the DICOM format are provided from reconstructed dielectric images obtained from raw scattering data. This allows for the exchange of information created from microwave imaging techniques to be implemented with existing diagnostic tools and analysis techniques. Furthermore, methods are presented for converting image data with Hounsfield encoded units to an image with dielectric encoded units.
摘要翻译：微波成像装置和方法，足以详细地对人体（或其部分）进行成像，以便由经过培训的医疗专业人员及时准确地进行医学诊断。所呈现的数据转换过程不需要医师和放射科医生学习以不熟悉的格式使用图像数据。从DICOM格式的Hounsfield编码和/或MRI强度编码的医学图像由从原始散射数据获得的重建的电介质图像提供。这允许利用现有的诊断工具和分析技术来实现利用微波成像技术创建的信息的交换。此外，提出了用Hounsfield编码单元将图像数据转换为具有介质编码单元的图像的方法。

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