Patents Assigned to Research Foundation
  • Patent number: 5813988
    Abstract: A method for imaging objects in highly scattering turbid media. According to one embodiment of the invention, the method involves using a plurality of intersecting source/detectors sets and time-resolving equipment to generate a plurality of time-resolved intensity curves for the diffusive component of light emergent from the medium. For each of the curves, the intensities at a plurality of times are then inputted into the following inverse reconstruction algorithm to form an image of the medium:X.sup.(k+1).spsp.T =?Y.sup.T W+X.sup.(k).spsp.T .LAMBDA.!?W.sup.T W+.LAMBDA.!.sup.-1wherein W is a matrix relating output at detector position r.sub.d, at time t, to source at position r.sub.s, .LAMBDA. is a regularization matrix, chosen for convenience to be diagonal, but selected in a way related to the ratio of the noise, <nn> to fluctuations in the absorption (or diffusion) X.sub.j that we are trying to determine:.LAMBDA..sub.ij =.lambda..sub.j .delta..sub.ij with .lambda..sub.j =<nn>/<.DELTA.Xj.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Research Foundation
    Inventors: Robert R. Alfano, Wei Cai, Feng Liu, Melvin Lax, Bidyut B. Das
  • Patent number: 4559229
    Abstract: A process of preparing a vaccine capable of protecting poultry against avian proventriculitis which comprises: separating proventriculitis reovirus from reovirus-carrying tissue of a poultry animal diseased with proventriculitis; inoculating a cell culture capable of sustaining the growth and replication of the reovirus; extracting the virus from cellular and nonviral components, and rendering the reovirus into a form suitable for administration to poultry, yields a vaccine and an immunization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1985
    Assignee: Research Foundation
    Inventors: Robert K. Page, Pedro Villegas, Caswell S. Eidson, Daniel Gaudry