US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Jan. 13 for "Computed tomography apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,072, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Computed tomography apparatus" was invented by Sho Shimizukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Taneichi (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoyuki Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging control unit performs conventional scanning, which directs a rotation mechanism to rotate a radiation source and a radiation detector without changing a positional relationship between a subject, and the radiation source and the radiation detector in a rotation axis direction, directs the radiation source t...