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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183534 | Scintillating fiber dosimeter array A radiation dosimetry apparatus and method use a scintillating optical fiber array for detecting dose levels. The scintillating optical fiber detectors generate optical energy in response to a predetermined type of radiation, and are coupled to collection optical fi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8173968 | System and method for improved radiation dosimetry A radiation dosimetry quality assurance system is disclosed that includes a three-dimensional (3D) phantom extending along a longitudinal axis to form an exterior surface and an interior volume and a passage formed to extend into the interior volume of the 3D phanto... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168953 | Method, apparatus and computer program for measuring the dose, dose rate or composition of radiation A method and an apparatus for measuring the dose, the dose rate and/or the composition of radiation is disclosed. In the method, a detector means is exposed to a radiation environment, the detector means comprising an array of radiation sensing detector elements. Th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8148696 | Single-use external dosimeters for use in radiation therapies and related devices and computer program products Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products include positioning disposable single-use radiation sensor patches that have adhesive means onto the skin of a patient to evaluate the radiation dose delivered during a treatment session. The sensor patches ar... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8053736 | Detector response modeling A detector response correction arrangement and method is proposed for online determination of correction factors for arbitrary positions from arbitrary incident fluence distributions. As modern radiotherapy utilizes more of the available degrees of freedom of radiat... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8044359 | Three dimensional dosimetry using solid array geometry A dosimeter comprising an ionizing radiation detector array is used to generally encompass a three dimensional geometric shape such as that employed as a phantom in radiation dosimetry measurements. The ionizing radiation detector array may include passive or active... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7964851 | Method for the spectrometric photon dosimetry for X-ray and gamma radiation A method of spectrometric photon dosimetry for integrally and nuclide-specifically determining a gamma dose rate for X-ray and gamma radiation. The method includes measuring a spectrum in at least one energy group or at least one interval group. The pulse height dis... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7923694 | Single-use external dosimeters for use in radiation therapies Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products include positioning single-use radiation sensor patches that have adhesive means onto the skin of a patient to evaluate the radiation dose delivered during a treatment session. The sensor patches are configure... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7659516 | C-MOS sensor readout from multiple cells across the array to generate dose sensing signal An array-based C-MOS sensor device is provided with a facility for on the basis of non-destructive cell readout generating a radiation dose-sensing signal. In particular, the facility is arranged for accessing a subset of multiple distributed C-MOS cells across the ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7615753 | Radiation detecting system with double resetting pulse count A device for measuring exposure to radiations including at least a component for detecting photons including at least a component for detecting photons or particles associated with at least one circuit for acquiring and counting detection events. The response curve ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7608831 | Radioactivity dose calibrator A radioactivity dose calibrator system measures the quantity of radioactive material contained in a sample-vial or syringe without removing the vial or syringe from its primary radiation shield. The system comprises a first radiation detector, a second radiation det... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7582875 | Monolithic active pixel dosimeter A monolithic active pixel dosimeter, provided with at least a sensing cell, having at least a junction sensing element. The junction sensing element includes a sensing region, having a first type of conductivity, and a charge collecting region, contiguous to the sen... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7557353 | Single-use external dosimeters for use in radiation therapies Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products include positioning disposable single-use radiation sensor patches that have adhesive means onto the skin of a patient to evaluate the radiation dose delivered during a treatment session. The sensor patches ar... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554090 | Apparatus and process for dose-guided radiotherapy A method and an apparatus for dose-guided radiotherapy for a patient (P) having an identified radiotherapy target utilizes a radiation detecting array (R) of radiation-sensitive dosimeters for the real-time remote measurement of radiotherapy at the radiation detecti... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7504636 | Radiation detector using pulse stretcher A radiation detection apparatus for use in noisy environments in which radiation detection and external noise generate interaction event pulses. A first interaction pulse initiates a following time interval during which the effect of received interaction event pulse... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7495224 | Single-use external dosimeters for use in radiation therapies and related methods and systems Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products include positioning disposable single-use radiation sensor patches that have adhesive means onto the skin of a patient to evaluate the radiation dose delivered during a treatment session. The sensor patches ar... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7491942 | Single-use internal dosimeters for detecting radiation in fluoroscopy and other medical procedures/therapies Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products include positioning single-use radiation internal dosimeters with MOSFETs into a patient to evaluate the radiation dose delivered during a medical procedure or treatment session. The MOSFETs can be unpowered d... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7378954 | Safety indicator and method A safety indicator monitors environment conditions detrimental to humans e.g., hazardous gases, air pollutants, low oxygen, radiation levels of EMF or RF and microwave, temperature, humidity and air pressure retaining a three month history to upload to a PC via infr... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375339 | Monitoring ionizing radiation in silicon-on insulator integrated circuits A method, device and system for monitoring ionizing radiation. The method including: collecting an ionizing radiation induced charge collected by the depletion region of a diode formed in a silicon layer below an oxide layer buried below a surface of a silicon subst... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372942 | Medical imaging system with dosimetry for estimating circuit board life A dosimeter is provided on or adjacent to a circuit board deployed in a radiation environment. The dosimeter may be read or output a value or values indicating radiation dosage over a period of time. The radiation dosage associated with the circuit board may be used... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368723 | Diamond radiation detector A method of detecting radiation that includes providing a layer of high purity single crystal CVD diamond, applying an electric field of no greater than 0.5 V/μm to the layer, exposing the layer to the radiation thereby generating a signal, and detecting the signal... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7351985 | Portable watch with radiation monitor A wrist-wearable device combines timekeeping functions with monitoring of the radiation dosage to which the user is exposed and of radiation intensity. A Geiger-Muller counter is used as a radiation detector in a wristwatch. A voltage changer changes voltage from 1.... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342231 | Detection of coincident radiations in a single transducer by pulse shape analysis Pulse shape analysis determines if two radiations are in coincidence. A transducer is provided that, when it absorbs the first radiation produces an output pulse that is characterized by a shorter time constant and whose area is nominally proportional to the energy ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7301155 | Radiation detector and radiation imaging apparatus and method for producing radiation detector A radiation detector provided in a substrate with a detection layer which is sensitive to radiation, the detector being characterized in that said detection layer is formed by a polycrystal film comprising either one of CdTe (cadmium telluride), ZnTe (zinc telluride... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7271608 | Prognostic cell for predicting failure of integrated circuits A prognostic cell is used to predict impending failure of a useful circuit or circuits in a host IC. Increasing the stress on the prognostic cell relative to the useful circuit shifts the failure distribution of the cell along the time axis. The relative amount of t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266421 | System for controlling lifting and remote handling units located in a confined enclosure The control system is used to control manipulation equipment (41) and carrying equipment (43) confined in a containment (40) inaccessible to operators and to perform maintenance operations related to electronic circuits for onboard equipment enc... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265358 | Device to prevent the risk of overexposure to harmful solar radiation A device intended to reduce the risks of overexposure to harmful solar radiation. The device includes a detection arrangement, including at least one sensor sensitive to solar radiation, in particular UV. In addition, an arrangement is linked to the detection arrang... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254214 | X-ray imaging device An X-ray imaging device is equipped with a solid state detector, for recording image information by being irradiated with X-rays that bear image information and for outputting image signals that represent the recorded image information, and an X-ray dosage detector ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247855 | Portable nuclear detector A portable nuclear material detector generally includes a scintillating fiber radiation sensor, a light detector, a conditioning circuit, a frequency shift keying (FSK) circuit, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) circuit, an electronic controller, an amplitude spectral ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7238949 | Conductor crossover for a semiconductor detector The invention relates to a conductor crossover for a semiconductor detector, particularly for a drift detector for conducting X-ray spectroscopy. The conductor crossover comprises at least two doped semiconductor electrodes (2), which are placed inside a semi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233004 | X-ray examination apparatus including a dosimeter The invention relates to an arrangement which includes a radiation source (1) and a radiation sensor device (3) for forming image signals (Bn), the radiation sensor device (3) being associated with a read-out circuit arrangement (4) for t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231018 | Imaging method and apparatus with exposure control According to a radiation imaging apparatus, any separate AEC sensor need not be prepared. Additionally, the apparatus main body can be made compact. To accomplish this, the radiation imaging apparatus has a first optical conversion element that converts incident rad... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227152 | Device to measure a radiation dose A device to measure a radiation dose, in particular an x-ray radiation dose, which absorbs radiation and provides an absorption-conditional output signal representing a measurement for the dose, has at least one absorption structure disposed on a foil-like carrier, ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223979 | Radiation dosimeter system An improved radiation dosimeter device in an improved radiation dosimeter system provides a DC analog output voltage that is proportional to the total ionizing dose accumulated as a function of time at the location of the dosimeter in a host spacecraft, so as to ope... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7217930 | Dose detector and dosimeter A dose detector includes a semiconductor radiation detector; a dose counter; and a check counter. The dose detector detects that the semiconductor radiation detector is outputting white noise even in a radiation shielded area and judges that the semiconductor radiat... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208743 | Method and device for determining the personal dose in mixed neutron/photon fields The invention relates to an instrument which uses an individual semi-conductive detector with special coverings as an essential sensor, and a method whereby the amplitude information of the signals from said semi-conductive detector are used to determine a person's ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203278 | Radiography plate with automatic exposure time recording mechanism A radiation exposure recording device and radiography method are disclosed, where the radiation exposure recording device includes a radiation exposure recording medium, a housing that at least partly surrounds the radiation exposure recording medium, and a first de... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197404 | Computation of radiating particle and wave distributions using a generalized discrete field constructed from representative ray sets The present system and method for simulating particles and waves is useful for calculations involving nuclear and full spectrum radiation transport, quantum particle transport, plasma transport and charged particle transport. The invention provides a mechanism for c... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7186987 | Organic materials and devices for detecting ionizing radiation A π-conjugated organic material for detecting ionizing radiation, and particularly for detecting low energy fission neutrons. The π-conjugated materials comprise a class of organic materials whose members are intrinsic semiconducting materials. Included in this cl... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7171252 | Methods, computer program products, and devices for calibrating chronically tissue implanted sensors using chronically tissue Calibration of in vivo oxygen and pH sensor systems can be performed by generating a constituent element of an environment proximate to an in vivo sensor electrode via an in vivo generating electrode and determining a level of the constituent element in the tissue v... | 01/30/2007 |
