US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on Aug. 26 for "Radiation treatment system and method of operating radiation treatment system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,175, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiation treatment system and method of operating radiation treatment system" was invented by Mitsuhiro Yoshida (Tokyo) and Yojiro Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a radiation treatment system which enables wide irradiation range of radiation to a patient without increasing a load on a structure body. A radiation treatment system includes: a couch that carries a treatment target; a radiation source; a rotation mechanism configured to support the radiation source and to rotate the radiation source around the couch; a sensor configured ...