US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 12 for "X-ray CT apparatus and attaching method and detaching method of units within gantry of x-ray CT apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,211, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"X-ray CT apparatus and attaching method and detaching method of units within gantry of x-ray CT apparatus" was invented by Takahito Watanabe (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) apparatus according to an embodiment includes a gantry. The gantry includes: a rotating base rotatably supported; a plurality of units fixed to the rotating base; and a fixing member that is separately provided, is positioned apart from the rotating base, and is configured to fix at least two of the plurality of units with ea...