Patents by Inventor Marie-Laure Camborde

Marie-Laure Camborde 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).

  • Instrument and method to facilitate and improve the timing alignment of a pet scanner
    Patent number: 7247844
    Abstract: A system for providing the timing alignment for a scanner. The system includes a removable source and detector assembly which is placed near the center of the scanner when in use. The source includes a long-lived positron emitting radioactive source. The radioactive source is in close contact with a fast plastic scintillator or other mechanism of detecting the ionization due to positron decay. A method for reading out the precise time at which the surrounding medium detects the ionization due to positron decay. A mechanism for using this time as a reference clock unto which the detectors in the scanner can be aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Scanwell Systems
    Inventors: Christopher J. Thompson, Marie-Laure Camborde
  • INSTRUMENT AND METHOD TO FACILITATE AND IMPROVE THE TIMING ALIGNMENT OF A PET SCANNER
    Publication number: 20070131857
    Abstract: A system for providing the timing alignment for a scanner. The system includes a removable source and detector assembly which is placed near the centre of the scanner when in use. The source includes a long-lived positron emitting radioactive source. The radioactive source is in close contact with a fast plastic scintillator or other mechanism of detecting the ionization due to positron decay. A method for reading out the precise time at which the surrounding medium detects the ionization due to positron decay. A mechanism for using this time as a reference clock unto which the detectors in the scanner can be aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Thompson, Marie-Laure Camborde