US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Sept. 23 for "Imaging unit, radiological image acquisition system, and radiological image acquisition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,383, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Imaging unit, radiological image acquisition system, and radiological image acquisition method" was invented by Tetsuya Taka (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Toshiyasu Suyama (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging unit includes a housing having an entrance window that allows radiation transmitted through an object to pass through, a scintillator having an input surface to which radiation passing through the entrance window is input, and a line scan sensor having an imaging surface that captures an image of scintillation light output fro...