US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 29 for "Radiation detection device, radiation diagnostic device, radiation detection method, and computer program product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,671, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Radiation detection device, radiation diagnostic device, radiation detection method, and computer program product" was invented by Go Kawata (Moriya, Japan) and Manabu Teshigawara (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detection device according to an embodiment includes a scintillator and a processing circuit. The processing circuit measures transferred energy when scintillation is caused after a gamma ray incident on a scintillator generates Cherenkov light and estimates a Cherenkov angle based on the transferred energy."

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