Patents by Inventor Deborah Stutz Lee

Deborah Stutz Lee 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).

  • Method and system of optical imaging for target detection in a scattering medium
    Patent number: 7692160
    Abstract: A method and system for fluorescence imaging of a target in a subject comprising a scattering medium is provided. The method comprises illuminating one or more points on a surface of the scattering medium using an illumination source, wherein the plurality of points define an illumination region, collecting emitted light from an illumination region and an area away from the illumination region, and generating an image of the scattering medium using the emitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Deborah Stutz Lee, Kajoli Banerjee Krishnan, Siavash Yazdanfar, Stephen Johnson Lomnes, Floribertus P. M. Heukensfeldt Jansen, Stephen Andrew Latham
  • NERVE BLOOD FLOW MODULATION FOR IMAGING NERVES
    Publication number: 20090234236
    Abstract: A method of visualizing nerves by observing the hemodynamic response of the blood flow comprising: acquiring a pre-stimulus image of a target tissue; providing a stimulus to the target tissue; introducing a time delay between the stimulus and a post-stimulus image; capturing the post-stimulus image of the target tissue; and producing a processed image based on a comparison between the pre-stimulus image and the post-stimulus image. Also described is a system for evaluating the hemodynamic response of blood flow comprising producing a processed image based on a comparison between the pre-stimulus image and the post-stimulus image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephen Johnson LOMNES, Cristina Abucay TAN HEHIR, Deborah Stutz LEE
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF OPTICAL IMAGING FOR TARGET DETECTION IN A SCATTERING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20080296482
    Abstract: A method and system for fluorescence imaging of a target in a subject comprising a scattering medium is provided. The method comprises illuminating one or more points on a surface of the scattering medium using an illumination source, wherein the plurality of points define an illumination region, collecting emitted light from an illumination region and an area away from the illumination region, and generating an image of the scattering medium using the emitted light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Deborah Stutz Lee, Kajoli Banerjee Krishnan, Siavash Yazdanfar, Stephen Johnson Lomnes, Floribertus P.M. Heukensfeldt Jansen, Stephen Andrew Latham