Charles A Landry

US Patent:

20210386386, Dec 16, 2021

Filed:

Oct 24, 2019

Appl. No.:

17/283305

Inventors:

- Portsmouth NH, US
Andrew TYBINKOWSKI - Topsfield MA, US
Charles LANDRY - Seabrook NH, US

International Classification:

A61B 6/04
A61B 6/00

Abstract:

A patient support mechanism that supports a patient during scanning of the patient by a medical scanner. The support mechanism includes a shoulder support rotatably attached to a head support. The head support receives the patient's head and the shoulder support receives an upper portion of the patient's body wherein the shoulder support includes a downwardly extending attachment device. The support mechanism also includes an attachment mechanism having a post section that is attached to the medical scanner. Further, the attachment mechanism includes a bracket element for receiving the attachment device wherein the shoulder support is attached to the bracket element by positioning the shoulder support above the bracket element and moving the shoulder support downward to attach the attachment device to the bracket element while the patient is lying in bed.

US Patent:

20210368609, Nov 25, 2021

Filed:

Mar 29, 2019

Appl. No.:

17/045998

Inventors:

- Portsmouth NH, US
Andrew TYBINKOWSKI - Topsfield MA, US
Charles LANDRY - Seabrook NH, US
Jamie BROOKS - Amesbury MA, US
Mark DIESELMAN - Amesbury MA, US
Clayton GARLAND - Barrington NH, US

International Classification:

H05G 1/02
H01J 35/12

Abstract:

A cooling system used in an X-ray generator having a cathode and anode that includes a target having a focal spot, wherein heat is generated in the anode and focal spot during operation of the X-ray generator. The system includes a heat transfer element attached to the anode wherein the heat transfer element includes a plurality of fin elements that transfer heat from the anode to surrounding air to cool the anode. The system also includes a liquid channel formed in the anode, wherein the liquid channel includes a cooling liquid. The liquid channel is located adjacent the target wherein heat from the focal spot is transferred to the cooling liquid to cool the focal spot wherein the heat transfer element, liquid channel and anode are unistructurally formed. Further, the cooling system includes a circulation pump that moves the cooling liquid in the liquid channel.

US Patent:

20190269378, Sep 5, 2019

Filed:

Mar 5, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/911218

Inventors:

- Erlangen, DE
- PORTSMOUTH NH, US
Charles Landry - Seabrook NH, US

International Classification:

A61B 6/00
G01N 23/046

Abstract:

A computed tomography system has an x-ray source, x-ray detector, a gantry, and a controller configured to automatically initiate an air-calibration using the source and detector with air in an air space and to determine gain values for channels of the detector from the automatically initiated air-calibration. A computed tomography system having a patient bore, a controller, an x-ray source, and a detector is calibrated by receiving a setting for a medical scan to be performed by the computed tomography system for a particular patient, the setting being one of a plurality of optional values, scanning air and not the patient in the patient bore with the source and the detector using the setting, determining a gain value based on the scanning with the setting and not the other optional values, and scanning the patient with the source and the detector using the setting and the gain value.

US Patent:

20190167495, Jun 6, 2019

Filed:

Dec 5, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/831824

Inventors:

- Erlangen, DE
- Portsmouth NH, US
Charles Landry - Seabrook NH, US
Frank Berger - Erlangen, DE

International Classification:

A61G 3/00
B60N 2/30

Abstract:

A jumpseat for an emergency transport vehicle having a patient compartment that includes a medical scanning device and a patient stretcher having a stretcher axis. The jumpseat includes a post element rotatably attached to a floor portion of the patient compartment, wherein the floor portion is located in a clearance space between the scanning device and a head end of the stretcher. The jumpseat also includes a seating element rotatably attached to the post element. The post and seating elements are moveable between a stowed position wherein the post element and seating element are substantially horizontal and a deployed position wherein the post element is substantially vertical and the seating element is substantially horizontal and located in the clearance space and in-line with a patient's body axis.