US Patent Issued to Canon on July 1 for "Radiation detection apparatus, radiation imaging system, and manufacturing method of radiation detection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,840, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation detection apparatus, radiation imaging system, and manufacturing method of radiation detection apparatus" was invented by Yohei Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shoshiro Saruta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detection apparatus includes a sensor array in which a plurality of pixels having photoelectric conversion elements is arranged on a substrate, a phosphor layer made of a plurality of columnar crystals provided on the sensor array, a phosphor protective layer provided on the phosphor layer to protect the phosphor layer, and a reflection layer prov...