US Patent Issued to RIKEN on Sept. 9 for "Tomographic image processing device, tomographic image processing method, program, information recording medium, and puncture member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,815, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RIKEN (Saitama, Japan).

"Tomographic image processing device, tomographic image processing method, program, information recording medium, and puncture member" was invented by Yosky Kataoka (Saitama, Japan), Sally Danno (Saitama, Japan), Toshiyuki Goto (Saitama, Japan), Kazuo Funabiki (Saitama, Japan), Ichiro Nakahara (Saitama, Japan) and Akira Mizoguchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tomographic image processing device generates a pseudo tomographic image from a moving image in which a cross section is captured via a light-receiving surface of a puncture member that punctures...