US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on April 22 for "System, method, and detector module for pet imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,124, issued on April 22, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"System, method, and detector module for pet imaging" was invented by Ze Chen (Shanghai) and Ting Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for PET imaging. The system may include a detector module and an electronics module. The detector module may include a scintillator array having N rows of scintillators arranged in a first direction and M columns of scintillators arranged in a second direction, a first set of photosensors coupled to the scintillator array and extending in the second directio...