Patents by Inventor Robert Franklin Senzig

Robert Franklin Senzig 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).

  • Integrated CT-PET system
    Patent number: 6661866
    Abstract: A combined emission-transmission imaging apparatus, the apparatus comprising oppositely facing first and second photon detector segments disposed on opposite sides of an imaging area and defining the imaging area there between and a radiation source disposed adjacent and outside the imaging area and adjacent at least one of the detector segments, the source generating a fan beam of radiation that emanates from a focal point and juxtaposed such that the fan beam is directed along a trajectory through the imaging area and toward the other of the detector segments, wherein the segments collect both emission and transmission radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Kenneth Limkeman, Alexander Ganin, Charles William Stearns, David Leo McDaniel, Robert Franklin Senzig