Patents by Inventor Charles A. Kelsey

Charles A. Kelsey 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).

  • Patent number: 5132542
    Abstract: The arrangement imaging a body through gamma radiation comprising the steps of detecting, within each fixed time period of a succession of fixed time periods at a plurality of locations impinged by the gamma radiation, electric charge levels corresponding to photoelectric events; counting within each fixed period only those charge levels at each location which are greater than a predetermined threshold level, and adding the counted charge levels for the succession of fixed time periods, whereby a distinct image of the body may be produced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Inventors: Bernd Bassalleck, Michael F. Hartshorne, Charles A. Kelsey, Frederick A. Mettler, David M. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 4976266
    Abstract: Methods of and apparatus for in vivo radiation measurements relay on a MOSFET dosimeter of high radiation sensitivity with operates in both the passive mode to provide an integrated dose detector and active mode to provide an irradiation rate detector. A compensating circuit with a matched unirradiated MOSFET is provided to operate at a current designed to eliminate temperature dependence of the device. Preferably, the MOSFET is rigidly mounted in the end of a miniature catheter and the catheter is implanted in the patient proximate the radiation source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Dennis D. Huffman, Robert C. Hughes, Charles A. Kelsey, Richard Lane, Antonio J. Ricco, Jay B. Snelling, Thomas E. Zipperian