Patents by Inventor Larry G. Byars

Larry G. Byars 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).

  • Design of super-fast three-dimensional projection system for Positron Emission Tomography
    Patent number: 5224037
    Abstract: A 3-dimensional projection system (10) for the rapid back projection of multi-ring Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan data composed of planes (44) of two-dimensional data defining individual Lines Of Response (LOR) (42) into a plurality of image voxels for three-dimensional display on a video screen. The projection system (10) of the preferred embodiment is a Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) based architecture which will support forward and back projection for a 3-dimensional image detected by a multi-ring PET scanner. A selected number of processing engines (20) are included for forward projection and back projection, the number of engines (20) being inversely proportional to the projection time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: CTI, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Jones, Michael E. Casey, Larry G. Byars