Patents by Inventor Joerg Pfeiffer

Joerg Pfeiffer 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: 7238948
    Abstract: A detection arrangement is for modular use for a combined transmission/emission tomography unit, for measuring transmission x-radiation and emission ?-radiation inside a detector. The detection arrangement includes at least three absorption layers of different thickness, arranged one above another in the radiation direction, for detecting absorption events in which case all of the at least three absorption layers consist of a single material. Each absorption layer is connected to a measuring chip which can transmit the measured values of location x, time t and energy E of detected absorption events to a common evaluation unit. The evaluation unit can undertake the breakdown into CT, SPECT and PET signals from the transmitted measured values of the absorption event, and the absorption layers are subdivided into a multiplicity of detection elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sven Fritzler, Bjoern Heismann, Joerg Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20060081899
    Abstract: A detection arrangement is for modular use for a combined transmission/emission tomography unit, for measuring transmission x-radiation and emission ?-radiation inside a detector. The detection arrangement includes at least three absorption layers of different thickness, arranged one above another in the radiation direction, for detecting absorption events in which case all of the at least three absorption layers consist of a single material. Each absorption layer is connected to a measuring chip which can transmit the measured values of location x, time t and energy E of detected absorption events to a common evaluation unit. The evaluation unit can undertake the breakdown into CT, SPECT and PET signals from the transmitted measured values of the absorption event, and the absorption layers are subdivided into a multiplicity of detection elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Sven Fritzler, Bjoern Heismann, Joerg Pfeiffer