Patents by Inventor Frank Charles Valentino

Frank Charles Valentino 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: 9063237
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a set of detector modules that detect gamma rays, which have energy in a range of 40 to 140 keV and 511 keV, emitted by a radioisotope in an examination region, wherein 511 keV gamma rays are detected in singles mode in which individual 511 keV gamma rays, and not coincidence pairs of 511 keV gamma rays, are detected, an energy discriminator that bins detected gamma rays into a first energy bin corresponding to 511 keV energy gamma rays and a second energy bin corresponding to 40 to 140 keV energy gamma rays, and a reconstructor that reconstructs the 511 keV energy gamma rays thereby generating a first image of a distribution of a first radionuclide and that reconstructs the gamma rays in the one or more ranges between 40 and 140 keV thereby generating a second image of a distribution of a second radionuclide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Frank Charles Valentino
  • Publication number: 20150090891
    Abstract: An imaging system (100) includes a set of detector modules (108) that detect gamma rays, which have energy in a range of 40 to 140 keV and 511 keV, emitted by a radioisotope in an examination region, wherein 511 keV gamma rays are detected in singles mode in which individual 511 keV gamma rays, and not coincidence pairs of 511 keV gamma rays, are detected, an energy discriminator (132) that bins detected gamma rays into a first energy bin corresponding to 511 keV energy gamma rays and a second energy bin corresponding to 40 to 140 keV energy gamma rays, and a reconstructor (126) that reconstructs the 511 keV energy gamma rays thereby generating a first image of a distribution of a first radionuclide and that reconstructs the gamma rays in the one or more ranges between 40 and 140 keV thereby generating a second image of a distribution of a second radionuclide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Frank Charles Valentino