ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,248, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ECENTIAL ROBOTICS (Gieres, France).
"Device for an x-ray imaging system" was invented by Arnaud Pierre (Gieres, France) and David Armand (Gieres, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, as disclosed, may be suitable for use with a tomographic imager comprising an X-ray source and a plane detector that are movable in rotation. The device (e.g., radiopaque device) includes a registration phantom that includes several radiopaque markers and that is placeable along a part of the spine of a patient at a predetermined distance from a volume of interest to be imaged. Several radiopaque screens...