Patents by Inventor R. R. Alfano

R. R. Alfano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Time-resolved optical backscattering tomographic image reconstruction in scattering turbid media
    Patent number: 6205353
    Abstract: A method for imaging objects in a highly scattering turbid medium, such as breast, brain, prostate in human body and clouds, smoke in atmosphere environment, using backscattered light. The method involves using a group of sources and detectors setting on same side of medium to generate a plurality of time-resolved intensity data of backscattered light from the medium. The inverse computation using a reconstruction algorithm, taking the measured data as input, produces a three-dimensional image map of the internal structure of a turbid medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Research Foundation of CUNY
    Inventors: R. R. Alfano, Wei Cai, Melvin Lax