Patents by Inventor Verner Toefting

Verner Toefting 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: 4115694
    Abstract: In a gamma camera system a computer calculates the x and y coordinates of scintillations and a pulse height analyzer determines if they are within the proper amplitude limits for being displayed on a cathode ray tube at corresponding coordinates. Means are provided for correcting nonuniformity or lack of correspondence between the positions of the scintillations and their calculated coordinates. In an accumulation mode, a first memory matrix stores pulse counts for incremental areas of the radiation field when a uniform source is presented to the detectors. When a predetermined maximum number of counts is reached in at least one memory location accumulation is interrupted at which time other locations have fewer counts in them. In the run mode counts are stored in corresponding locations in a second memory matrix and these counts are compared continuously with those in locations in the first memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kai Lange, Verner Toefting, Ernest J. Wiesen, Robert R. Lijewski