Patents by Inventor Christian Le Brun

Christian Le Brun 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: 7154097
    Abstract: A method for measuring a dose of irradiation with a beam of ionizing radiation capable of creating Cherenkov radiation, in which a scintillator for emitting scintillation light, whose intensity is a function of the dose of this beam irradiating this scintillator, is arranged below this beam, the scintillator is coupled, via an optical fiber, to a device for measuring the light emitted by the scintillator, and the quantity of light transmitted by the optical fiber is measured, is described. The light emerging from the opposite end of the optical fiber is filtered using two bandpass filters having cutoff bands in different parts of the spectrum, the intensity of the light coming from these two filters is measured a plurality of times, and the pluralities of quantities of scintillation light and Cherenkov radiation are calculated on the basis of these measurements to deduce a first irradiation dose value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Fontbonne, Bernard Tamain, Joël Tillier, Gilles Iltis, Christian Le Brun, Gilles Ban
  • Publication number: 20040238749
    Abstract: The invention related to a method for measuring a dose of radiation by a beam of high-power radiation, where in a scintillate (1) is disposed below said beam in order to emit scintillation light whose intensity is a function of the dose of said beam irradiating said scintillate (1); the scintillate (1) is coupled to a device (8) for measuring the light emitted by the scintillate (1) via an optical fiber (2); the amount of light transmitted by the optical fiber (2) is measured; the intensity of the light emitted by the scintillate (1) is determined on the basis of the light emitted by at least one other source, after said optical fiber (2) is used for transmission of the light emitted by the scintillate (1) and the light emitted by each other source. The invention also related to a device for measuring the dose of radiation for the implementation of said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Fontbonne, Bernard Tamain, Joel Tillier, Gilles Iltis, Christian Le Brun, Gilles Ban