US Patent Issued to MILABS on Jan. 27 for "Gamma camera device and collimator" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,601, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MILABS B.V. (Houten, Netherlands).

"Gamma camera device and collimator" was invented by Frederik Johannes Beekman (Houten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gamma camera device includes a collimator with pinholes which surrounds an object space for receiving an object, a detector surface for detecting gamma radiation emitted by the object and passing through pinholes of the collimator, and a controller for processing the detector signals into an image of the object. The collimator and the object space have a common longitudinal axis, wherein the collimator includes a plurality of gro...