Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther

Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther 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).

  • Light imaging contrast agents
    Patent number: 7014839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of particulate materials as contrast agents in in vivo light imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Bjorn Fuglaas, Pål Rongved, Edvin Johannesen, Paul Mark Henrichs, Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther, Edward Richard Bacon, John Luke Toner, Gregory Lynn McIntire, Vinay C. Desai
  • Methods of photoacoustic imaging
    Patent number: 6662040
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of generating an image of an animate human or non-human animal body or part thereof. The method comprises administering to said body a physiologically tolerable contrast agent comprising a radiation absorbing component and/or a pressure inducing component, exposing said body to radiation, detecting pressure waves generated in said body by said radiation and generating an optoacoustic image therefrom of at least a part of said body containing the administered contrast agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Paul Mark Henrichs, Marten Eriksen, Pal Rongved, Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther, Robert Allen Snow, Kenneth Robert Hollister, Gregory Lynn McIntire, Steven Blair Coffey
  • Light imaging contrast agents
    Publication number: 20030157021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of particulate materials as contrast agents in in vivo light imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Bjorn Fuglaas, Pal Rongved, Edvin Johannesen, Paul Mark Henrichs, Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther, Edward Richard Bacon, John Luke Toner, Gregory Lynn McIntire, Vinay C. Desai
  • Light imaging contrast agents
    Patent number: 6540981
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of particulate materials as contrast agents in in vivo light imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Amersham Health AS
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Bjorn Fuglass, Pål Rongved, Edvin Johannesen, Paul Mark Hendrichs, Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther, Edward Richard Bacon, John Luke Toner, Gregory Lynn McIntire, Vinay C. Desai
  • Light imaging contrast agents
    Publication number: 20010022963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of particulate materials as contrast agents in in vivo light imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Nycomed Imaging AS, a Oslo, Norway Corporation
    Inventors: Jo Klaveness, Bjorn Fuglass, Pal Rongved, Edvin Johannesen, Paul Mark Henrichs, Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther, Edward Richard Bacon, John Luke Toner, Gregory Lynn McIntire, Vinay C. Desai