US Patent Issued to Cintilight on Oct. 21 for "Scintillator detectors and methods for positron emission tomography" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,554, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cintilight LLC (Seattle).

"Scintillator detectors and methods for positron emission tomography" was invented by Philipp Braeuninger-Weimer (Seattle), Chad E. Seaver (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ronald Grazioso (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Simon Philip Jelley (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes a plurality of gamma radiation detector modules arranged to form a detector ring. Each detector module includes an array of scintillator detectors. Each scintillator detector comprises a monolithic scintillation crystal and a plurality of photode...