Patents by Inventor John E. Best

John E. Best 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: 4843618
    Abstract: In a computerized tomographic apparatus in which the requisite absorption data are derived by rotating a source of fanned radiation around a body to be examined and detecting radiation emergent from a cross-sectional slice of the body at many times during the rotation the data, when assembled into sets relating to parallel beam paths through the slice, tends to relate to beam paths which are non-uniformly spaced across the slice. Some techniques for processing such data to produce a representation of the variation of absorption of said radiation over the slice should preferably have said data presented thereto in the form of sets relating to substantially uniformly spaced, parallel beam paths. The application of this invention provides considerably more data then is actually required for the processing so that data relating to beam paths of the required numbers and dispositions can be derived therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: EMI Limited
    Inventors: John E. Best, Christopher A. G. LeMay, Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Robert J. Froggatt