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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Per Waaben Hansen, Lyngby, DK;
Assignee:
Foss Electric A/S, Hillerod, DK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/3083 ; H05G 1/64 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/3083 ; H05G 1/64 ;
Abstract
Properties of a medium of food or feed, such as the fat content of meat, are determined by the use of dual X-ray absorptiometry with dual energy levels. Substantially, the entire medium is scanned by X-ray beams, and the X-rays passing through the medium are detected for a plurality of areas (pixels) of the medium. For each area, values A and A , representing absorption in the area of the medium at low and high energy levels are calculated. A plurality of values being products of the type A *A are generated and used for predicting the properties of the medium in this area. Thereby the accuracy of the property determination is improved considerably.