Detlef Mattern
39Patents
12h-index
29Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 22, 1993 → Nov 12, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.