Inventor · Brookfield, WI, US

Thomas L. Toth

108Patents
24h-index
87Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 16, 1990 → Aug 9, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4991189A Collimation apparatus for x-ray beam correction Physics 182 Expired
US6990171B2 System and method of determining a user-defined region-of-interest of an imaging subject for x-ray flux management control Human Necessities 118 Expired
US5400378A Dynamic dose control in multi-slice CT scan Human Necessities 110 Expired
US5379333A Variable dose application by modulation of x-ray tube current during CT scanning Electricity 103 Expired
US7068751B2 System and method of determining a center of mass of an imaging subject for x-ray flux management control Human Necessities 72 Expired
US7076029B2 Method and apparatus of radiographic imaging with an energy beam tailored for a subject to be scanned Human Necessities 63 Expired
US7636413B2 Method and apparatus of multi-energy imaging Physics 63 Expired
US7068750B2 System and method of x-ray flux management control Human Necessities 63 Expired
US5550889A Alignment of an x-ray tube focal spot using a deflection coil Electricity 58 Expired
US7031434B1 Method of manufacturing, and a collimator mandrel having variable attenuation characteristics for a CT system Physics 53 Expired
US6990172B2 Method and apparatus to determine tube current modulation profile for radiographic imaging Human Necessities 51 Expired
US7266180B1 Method of manufacturing a collimator mandrel having variable attenuation characteristics for a CT system Physics 51 Expired
US7260182B2 Method and apparatus of radiographic imaging with an energy beam tailored for a subject to be scanned Human Necessities 50 Expired
US5450462A Modulation of x-ray tube current during CT scanning with modulation limit Human Necessities 50 Expired
US5625662A Modulating x-ray tube current in a CT system Electricity 37 Expired
US5644614A Collimator for reducing patient x-ray dose Electricity 36 Expired
US5457724A Automatic field of view and patient centering determination from prescan scout data Human Necessities 35 Expired
US6307918A Position dependent beam quality x-ray filtration Physics 32 Expired
US6775352B2 Method and system for implementing variable x-ray intensity modulation schemes for imaging systems Physics 31 Expired
US6198791A Scalable multislice imaging system Human Necessities 29 Expired
US6061419A Methods and apparatus for noise compensation in an imaging system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US6056437A Methods and apparatus for imaging system detector alignment Physics 27 Expired
US6370218B1 Methods and systems for determining x-ray beam position in multi-slice computed tomography scanners Physics 26 Expired
US6115487A Correction algorithm for bone-induced spectral artifacts in computed tomograph imaging Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US5982846A Methods and apparatus for dose reduction in a computed tomograph Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired

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