US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 25 for "Computed tomography apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,337, issued on Nov. 25, 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: "A CT apparatus includes a plurality of imaging units, a rotation mechanism, and a CPU. The imaging unit includes a radiation source and a radiation detector. The rotation mechanism rotates the plurality of imaging units around a body axis of the subject while maintaining a disposition interval. An imaging control unit...