Patents by Inventor Nora Volkow

Nora Volkow 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).

  • Intralipid as a contrast agent to enhance subsurface blood flow imaging
    Patent number: 10531803
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of imaging blood vessels or blood flow in blood vessels in an animal comprising: (i) injecting a lipid solution into the bloodstream of the animal; (ii) imaging the blood vessels by an imaging method; and (iii) calculating the blood flow velocity in the blood vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Yingtian Pan, Congwu Du, Hugang Ren, Nora Volkow
  • INTRALIPID AS A CONTRAST AGENT TO ENHANCE SUBSURFACE BLOOD FLOW IMAGING
    Publication number: 20150209449
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of imaging blood vessels or blood flow in blood vessels in an animal comprising: (i) injecting a lipid solution into the bloodstream of the animal; (ii) imaging the blood vessels by an imaging method; and (iii) calculating the blood flow velocity in the blood vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Yingtian Pan, Congwu Du, Hugang Ren, Nora Volkow
  • Compact conscious animal positron emission tomography scanner
    Patent number: 7126126
    Abstract: A method of serially transferring annihilation information in a compact positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes generating a time signal for an event, generating an address signal representing a detecting channel, generating a detector channel signal including the time and address signals, and generating a composite signal including the channel signal and similarly generated signals. The composite signal includes events from detectors in a block and is serially output. An apparatus that serially transfers annihilation information from a block includes time signal generators for detectors in a block and an address and channel signal generator. The PET scanner includes a ring tomograph that mounts onto a portion of an animal, which includes opposing block pairs. Each of the blocks in a block pair includes a scintillator layer, detection array, front-end array, and a serial encoder. The serial encoder includes time signal generators and an address signal and channel signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Schyler, Paul O'Connor, Craig Woody, Sachin Shrirang Junnarkar, Veljko Radeka, Paul Vaska, Jean-Francois Pratte, Nora Volkow
  • Compact conscious animal positron emission tomography scanner
    Publication number: 20050082486
    Abstract: A method of serially transferring annihilation information in a compact positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes generating a time signal for an event, generating an address signal representing a detecting channel, generating a detector channel signal including the time and address signals, and generating a composite signal including the channel signal and similarly generated signals. The composite signal includes events from detectors in a block and is serially output. An apparatus that serially transfers annihilation information from a block includes time signal generators for detectors in a block and an address and channel signal generator. The PET scanner includes a ring tomograph that mounts onto a portion of an animal, which includes opposing block pairs. Each of the blocks in a block pair includes a scintillator layer, detection array, front-end array, and a serial encoder. The serial encoder includes time signal generators and an address signal and channel signal generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: David Schlyer, Paul O'Connor, Craig Woody, Sachin Junnarkar, Veljko Radeka, Paul Vaska, Jean-Francois Pratte, Nora Volkow