ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,496, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RIKEN (Saitama, Japan).
"Radiation imaging system and radiation imaging method" was invented by Takashi Kameshima (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of a radiation imaging apparatus includes: an exposure time control unit which controls a subframe exposure time of an image sensor such that focused fluorescence at a depth of field generated by radiation reaching a scintillator and out-of-focus fluorescence deviating from the depth of field are discretely imaged on a light receiving surface of the image sensor for each particle of the radiation; a focused signal discrimin...