WILLIAM HENRY JONES, PT, DPT
Physical Therapy at Chapman Hwy, Knoxville, TN

7638771, Dec 29, 2009

May 16, 2007

11/749434

John E. Breeding - Knoxville TN, US
Michael E. Casey - Louisville TN, US
William F Jones - Knoxville TN, US

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. - Malvern PA

G01T 1/166

25036304

A system for generating time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) projection data includes a direct memory access rebinner constructed as a digital FPGA pipeline for rebinning TOF coincidence data in accordance with a number of projection space mapping algorithms, such as single-slice rebinning (SSRB) and reduced multiple-slice rebinning (MSRB), together with less precise transaxial and/or axial sampling.

6980683, Dec 27, 2005

Jun 25, 2002

10/179060

William F. Jones - Knoxville TN, US

CTI PET Systems, Inc. - Knoxville TN

G06K009/00

382131, 25036303

A device and method for on-line correction of patient motion in three-dimensional positron emission tomography. The devices encompass an on-line hardware pipelining architecture to support 3D translation, normalization, and weighted histogramming as required. Five stages of processing for the PET event stream are utilized in the present invention. Each stage feeds the next with progressively modified event packets proceeding at a processing speed of at least 10M packets/sec. Stage calculates an event correction factor (ECF) for each incoming detector-pair event packet. This ECF is incorporated into the event packet for use later in Stage Stage converts the detector-index-pair content of each packet into (x,y,z) pair content. Specifically, the representation of each detector element is converted from a discrete crystal index into a 3-D coordinate index. Stage transforms the (x,y,z) pair into an (x′,y′,z′) pair.

7676070, Mar 9, 2010

May 16, 2005

11/130631

William F. Jones - Knoxville TN, US
Johnny Reed - Clinton TN, US

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. - Malvern PA

G06K 9/00

382128, 382131, 382132

A device for improved on-line histogramming of data acquired in a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan. The device is a Smart DRAM (SD) PCI card, of which more than one can be used in combination within a PC-based architecture for on-line histogramming. The SD PCI card is applied as either of a Gating Buffer, a histogramming card, and a normalization buffer. The Gating Buffer card alternately stores an arriving PET data packet stream into two dedicated DRAM banks. The two DRAM banks store and retransmit the packet stream in the order of arrival for an entire physiological cycle. The histogramming SD RMW PCI cards provide a very high rate of histogramming. The extendible daisy-chain of SD RMW PCI cards supports large memory banks across potentially hundreds of SD RMW PCI cards. Under a single PC, a multiple PCI Expansion chassis is employed such that a large number of PCI cards are supported.

7983186, Jul 19, 2011

Sep 11, 2009

12/558055

John E. Breeding - Knoxville TN, US
Michael E. Casey - Louisville TN, US
Jimmy Everman - Maryville TN, US
William F. Jones - Knoxville TN, US
Wing K. Luk - Knoxville TN, US
Johnny H. Reed - Clinton TN, US

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. - Malvern PA

H04L 12/26

370252

A system identifies when received packets are lost at a node in a multi-node processing chain. The system processing chain may include a gantry interface module for receiving coincident event data from a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) detector array, a DMA (direct memory access) rebinner card, and a transmission line coupled between the gantry interface module and the DMA card. FPGA and FIFO elements in each processing portion receive packets that may be lost if there is insufficient FIFO capacity. Lost packets are marked, discarded, and counted. At specified intervals, set in accordance with a threshold number of packets received a lost tally data packet is generated that includes count information for lost packets. The lost tally data packet is forwarded downstream when sufficient storage capacity exists.

8060696, Nov 15, 2011

May 8, 2009

12/437714

William F. Jones - Knoxville TN, US
John E. Breeding - Knoxville TN, US
Johnny H. Reed - Clinton TN, US
Jimmy Everman - Maryville TN, US

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. - Malvern PA

G06F 12/16

711114, 711110

PET system including array, data processing, and data acquisition. Data acquisition includes one-to-N channel write striping, N-to-one channel read unstriping, N data storage elements, and control logic. Control logic allocates (statically or dynamically) write/read access to data storage elements. Dynamic allocation can be conditional, e. g. , that data storage elements be available to receive all input data from array. Embodiments include an input buffer where the condition is determined dynamically based on capacity of the input buffer to temporarily preserve all input data supplied during periods data storage element unavailability. Communication between array and data acquisition can be Fibre Channel simplex implementing only FC-0, FC-1. Data storage elements have data handling bandwidth equal to or greater than (data output rate /N) plus (data input rate/N). Control logic, write striping, read unstriping can be implemented in FPGA.

5750991, May 12, 1998

Nov 27, 1995

8/563268

J. Clifton Moyers - Oak Ridge TN
Ronald Nutt - Knoxville TN
William F. Jones - Knoxville TN

CTI Pet Systems, Inc. - Knoxville TN

G01T 1161

25036303

A method and apparatus for producing radioactive transmission measurements to form multi-dimensional attenuation correction data with a point source of radiation, such as required in positron emission tomography applications. This involves the passing of the point source proximate the face of a selected each of the tomograph units for the formation of a 3-D image, or a selected portion of the tomograph units for a 2-D image. As such, attenuation data, transmission data, detector performance data, etc. , can be obtained. This point source of radiation, in one embodiment, is rapidly circulated through a conduit that passes across each detector face under the influence of a transport fluid in, for example, an oscillatory motion to achieve a selected radiation field whereby calculation of transmission measurements within a body positioned within the tomograph scanner is achieved. When not being circulated, the radiation source is held within a shield. Circulation of the transport fluid, typically a hydraulic fluid, is typically accomplished using a positive displacement pump.