Patents by Inventor Daniela Steinbach

Daniela Steinbach 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).

  • Compact, high-resolution, gamma ray imaging for scintimammography and other medical diagostic applications
    Patent number: 5864141
    Abstract: A high resolution gamma ray imaging device includes an aluminum housing, a lead screen collimator at an opened end of the housing, a crystal scintillator array mounted behind the lead screen collimator, a foam layer between the lead screen collimator and the crystal scintillator array, a photomultiplier window coupled to the crystal with optical coupling grease, a photomultiplier having a dynode chain body and a base voltage divider with anodes, anode wire amplifiers each connected to four anodes and a multi pin connector having pin connections to each anode wire amplifier. In one embodiment the crystal scintillator array includes a yttrium aluminum perovskite (YAP) crystal array. In an alternate embodiment, the crystal scintillator array includes a gadolinium oxyorthosilicate (GSO) crystal array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Southeastern Univ. Research Assn.
    Inventors: Stanislaw Majewski, Andrew G. Weisenberger, Randolph F. Wojcik, Daniela Steinbach