Patents by Inventor Kenneth Poole

Kenneth Poole 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).

  • Image data processing systems for estimating the thickness of human/animal tissue structures
    Patent number: 8938109
    Abstract: We describe a method of estimating the thickness of a tissue structure, in particular cortical bone thickness from tomographic imaging data such as CT data. The method models the tissue structure as a variation of an imaging parameter along a line; models a variation of the tomographic imaging data along the line as a blurred version of the variation of the imaging parameter modelling the; and fits the blurred tomographic imaging model to data from the tomographic imaging by holding a tissue modelling parameter at a constraining value and allowing variation of a blurring parameter and at least one parameter defining the thickness of the tissue structure to determine an estimate of the thickness of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Graham Michael Treece, Kenneth Poole
  • IMAGE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20120224758
    Abstract: We describe a method of estimating the thickness of a tissue structure, in particular cortical bone thickness from tomographic imaging data such as CT data. The method models the tissue structure as a variation of an imaging parameter along a line; models a variation of the tomographic imaging data along the line as a blurred version of the variation of the imaging parameter modelling the; and fits the blurred tomographic imaging model to data from the tomographic imaging by holding a tissue modelling parameter at a constraining value and allowing variation of a blurring parameter and at least one parameter defining the thickness of the tissue structure to determine an estimate of the thickness of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Graham Michael Treece, Kenneth Poole