Paul J Mirabella, Age 75353 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037

6481887, Nov 19, 2002

Jul 28, 2000

09/628656

Paul J. Mirabella - Brookfield WI

GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC - Waukesha WI

H05G 102

378198, 378209, 296 241

A mobile medical image scanner and teleradiology system are incorporated into an ambulance or other vehicle to permit a patient to be diagnosed while en route to a treatment facility such as a trauma center. The system obtains medical image data while the patient is being transported in the vehicle and transmits the medical image data to a receiver at a location which is remote from the vehicle. At the remote location, the transmitted medical image data is displayed in a humanly discernable manner and interpreted by a qualified physician, who then communicates diagnostic information to the technicians in the vehicle and/or to the treating physicians at the treatment facility. By providing diagnostic information back to the treating physicians prior to the patients arrival at the treatment facility, the patient can be routed directly to the operating room, or the intensive care unit as necessary, thereby saving valuable time. The patient can even receive some care in the vehicle based on the diagnoses before he or she reaches the treatment facility. Patient survival rates are substantially improved due to the reduction in the diagnostic time required after the patient arrives at the trauma center.

6625252, Sep 23, 2003

Aug 22, 2002

10/225654

Paul J. Mirabella - Brookfield WI

GE Medical Systems Global Technology Co., LLC - Waukesha WI

H05G 100

378102, 378198

A mobile medical image scanner and teleradiology system are incorporated into an ambulance or other vehicle to permit a patient to be diagnosed while en route to a treatment facility such as a trauma center. The system obtains medical image data while the patient is being transported in the vehicle and transmits the medical image data to a receiver at a location which is remote from the vehicle. At the remote location, the transmitted medical image data is displayed in a humanly discernable manner and interpreted by a qualified physician, who then communicates diagnostic information to the technicians in the vehicle and/or to the treating physicians at the treatment facility. By providing diagnostic information back to the treating physicians prior to the patients arrival at the treatment facility, the patient can be routed directly to the operating room, or the intensive care unit as necessary, thereby saving valuable time. The patient can even receive some care in the vehicle based on the diagnoses before he or she reaches the treatment facility. Patient survival rates are substantially improved due to the reduction in the diagnostic time required after the patient arrives at the trauma center.

4296329, Oct 20, 1981

Oct 22, 1979

6/087595

Paul J. Mirabella - Waukesha WI

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G01N 2100

250491

In a computed tomography system a cylindrical calibration phantom having a vertical and a horizontal crosshair on its front face is adjusted until the intersection point of the crosshairs is coincident with the isocenter of the x-ray scanner as demonstrated by the display of a reconstructed tomographic of the phantom. Vertical and horizontal intersecting coherent light beams from a laser source are then projected onto the phantom and the source is adjusted until the light beams, crosshairs and their intersections coincide. Any phantom used for any subsequent calibration only needs to be adjusted until the permanently set laser light beams coincide with its crosshairs in which case the isocenter is determined exactly again and the apparatus is ready immediately for a calibration run.

4262204, Apr 14, 1981

Sep 24, 1979

6/078422

Paul J. Mirabella - Waukesha WI

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G03B 4116

250445T

A cradle, adapted for being extended from a base in cantilever fashion to support a patient in the x-ray beam of a computerized tomography scanner, is composed of an elongated x-ray permeable structural foam core having a generally crescent-shaped cross section with small radius edges. The core is encased in a resin-based preferably carbon fiber filled skin, formed with smaller radius edges.