Patents by Inventor Ytzhak Klein

Ytzhak Klein 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).

  • Methods and systems for medical imaging
    Patent number: 7592596
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a medical imaging system are provided. The medical imaging system includes an input circuit configured to receive a voltage level signal indicative of a stream of pulses, a voltage level signal shape analyzer configured to determine shape characteristics of the received voltage level signal and an amount of time that the received voltage level signal matches a predetermined shape, and a counting circuit configured to determine a true number of pulses from the shape characteristics and the amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Israel, Ltd
    Inventors: Ytzhak Klein, Yaron Hefetz, Alexander Gabriel Fishler, Michael Wilk
  • Methods and systems for medical imaging
    Publication number: 20060276706
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a medical imaging system are provided. The medical imaging system includes an input circuit configured to receive a voltage level signal indicative of a stream of pulses, a voltage level signal shape analyzer configured to determine shape characteristics of the received voltage level signal and an amount of time that the received voltage level signal matches a predetermined shape, and a counting circuit configured to determine a true number of pulses from the shape characteristics and the amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Ytzhak Klein, Yaron Hefetz, Alexander Fishler, Michael Wilk
  • High count rate gamma camera system
    Patent number: 6576907
    Abstract: A gamma camera system that increases the count rate by counting events that time-wise appear to be pile-up events but are spatially separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Elgems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ytzhak Klein, Alexander Fishler