Melissa Vass
16Patents
9h-index
14Co-inventors
61Inventor score
Filing activity: May 7, 2003 → Jul 1, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7813785B2 | Cardiac imaging system and method for planning minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery | Human Necessities | 178 | Active |
| US7499743B2 | Method and system for registration of 3D images within an interventional system | Physics | 130 | Active |
| US7747047B2 | Cardiac CT system and method for planning left atrial appendage isolation | Physics | 107 | Active |
| US7613500B2 | Methods and apparatus for assisting cardiac resynchronization therapy | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US7996063B2 | Method and apparatus for medical intervention procedure planning and location and navigation of an intervention tool | Human Necessities | 95 | Active |
| US7778686B2 | Method and apparatus for medical intervention procedure planning and location and navigation of an intervention tool | Human Necessities | 94 | Active |
| US7343196B2 | Cardiac CT system and method for planning and treatment of biventricular pacing using epicardial lead | Human Necessities | 88 | Expired |
| US7313213B1 | Step-and-shoot cardiac CT imaging | Human Necessities | 12 | Expired |
| US7313215B2 | Step-and-shoot cardiac CT imaging | Human Necessities | 9 | Expired |
| US7054405B2 | System and method for computing volumetric perfusion | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Expired |
| US7613275B2 | Method and apparatus for reducing cone beam artifacts using spatially varying weighting functions | Human Necessities | 7 | Active |
| US8364244B2 | Methods and systems to facilitate reducing banding artifacts in images | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7636462B2 | Method and system for filtering in medical imaging | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US7778385B2 | Step-and-shoot cardiac CT imaging | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US7734005B2 | Step-and-shoot cardiac CT imaging | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US7558363B2 | Step-and-shoot cardiac CT imaging | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.