Patents Assigned to Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8368029
    Abstract: A multi-modality imaging system for imaging of an object under study, e.g., a whole body or parts of the body of animals such as humans, other primates, swine, dogs, or rodents, that includes a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-family semiconductor, single-photon imaging apparatus within a magnetic field produced by the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus such that sequential or simultaneous imaging can be done with the two modalities using the same support bed of the object under study in the same, uninterrupted imaging session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Wagenaar, Bradley E. Patt
  • Patent number: 8071950
    Abstract: A multi-modality imaging system for imaging of an object under study, e.g., a whole body or parts of the body of animals such as humans, other primates, swine, dogs, rodents (especially mice and rats), that includes a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-family semiconductor, single-photon imaging apparatus in close proximity such that sequential or simultaneous imaging can be done with the two modalities using the same support bed of the object under study in the same, uninterrupted imaging session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Wagenaar, Bradley E. Patt
  • Patent number: 7813786
    Abstract: An apparatus for intravascular imaging to detect and characterize early stage, unstable coronary arty plaques. The detector works by identifying and localizing plaque-binding beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan S. Iwanczyk, Bradley E. Patt, Edward J. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 7786444
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improving image quality of single photon nuclear imaging systems, such as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) systems for imaging of an object under study, such as small objects including small animals of different sizes using synthetic apertures. The methods and systems include processes and instrumentations for high-resolution, high detection efficiency leading to lower image noise and artifact-free synthetic aperture single photon nuclear images, such as SPECT images. Also, the method and systems provide design parameters, hardware settings, and data acquisition processes for optimal imaging of objects having different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Wagenaar, Bradley E. Patt, Benjamin M. W. Tsui
  • Patent number: 7787933
    Abstract: An apparatus for intravascular imaging to detect and characterize early stage, unstable coronary arty plaques. The detector works by identifying and localizing plaque-binding beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan S. Iwanczyk, Bradley E. Patt, Edward J. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 7629586
    Abstract: A multi-modality imaging system for imaging of an object under study, e.g., a whole body or parts of the body of animals such as humans, other primates, swine, dogs, rodents (especially mice and rats), that includes a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-family semiconductor, single-photon imaging apparatus in close proximity such that sequential or simultaneous imaging can be done with the two modalities using the same support bed of the object under study in the same, uninterrupted imaging session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Wagenaar, Bradley E. Patt
  • Patent number: 7359747
    Abstract: An apparatus for intravascular imaging to detect and characterize early stage, unstable coronary arty plaques. The detector works by identifying and localizing plaque-binding beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan S. Iwanczyk, Bradley E. Patt, Edward J. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 7328058
    Abstract: An apparatus for intravascular imaging to detect and characterize early-stage, unstable coronary arty plaques. The detector works by identifying and localizing plaque-binding beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan S. Iwanczyk, Bradley E. Patt, Edward J. Hoffman