Inventor · Erlangen, DE

Detlef Mattern

39Patents
12h-index
29Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 22, 1993 → Nov 12, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6339635B1 X-ray tube Electricity 134 Expired
US6292538A X-ray tube with flying focus Electricity 38 Expired
US6396901B1 X-ray emitter with force-cooled rotating anode Electricity 31 Expired
US6646366B2 Directly heated thermionic flat emitter Electricity 28 Expired
US6141400A X-ray source which emits fluorescent X-rays Electricity 26 Expired
US6181771A X-ray source with selectable focal spot size Electricity 26 Expired
US6412979B1 Computed tomography system with arrangement for cooling the x-ray radiator mounted on a rotating gantry Human Necessities 16 Expired
US6709156B1 Cooling device and computed tomography apparatus employing same Electricity 16 Expired
US6426997B1 X-ray tube with warning device for accurately indicating impending failure of the thermionic emitter Electricity 15 Expired
US6115453A Direct-Heated flats emitter for emitting an electron beam Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US6310357A Device for reading out a storage luminophore plate Physics 12 Expired
US7435965B2 X-ray detector and method for production of x-ray images with spectral resolution Physics 12 Expired
US6164820A X-ray examination system particulary for computed tomography and mammography Electricity 11 Expired
US6213639A Low-cost x-ray radiator Electricity 7 Expired
US7388944B2 Device for generation of x-ray radiation with a cold electron source Electricity 6 Active
US5610396A Method for determining the gain factor of a photomultiplier Physics 6 Expired
US7496179B2 X-ray unit having an x-ray radiator with a thermionic photocathode and a control circuit therefor Electricity 5 Active
US6212257A Modular X-ray radiator system Electricity 5 Expired
US7412033B2 X-ray radiator with thermionic emission of electrons from a laser-irradiated cathode Electricity 5 Active
US6624555B2 Directly heated thermionic flat emitter Electricity 5 Expired
US7022994B2 Radiation converter Electricity 4 Expired
US5519224A Method of localizing scintillation events detected by scintillation camera systems Physics 4 Expired
US6210755A Method and evaporation chamber for generating a continuous vapor stream containing a compound having monovalent gallium therein, and a vacuum coating apparatus Chemistry; Metallurgy 4 Expired
US6720026B2 Method for improving the optical separation of fluorescent layers Electricity 4 Expired
US7508917B2 X-ray radiator with a photocathode irradiated with a deflected laser beam Electricity 4 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.