US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on Jan. 20 for "Radiation therapy system and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,973, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Radiation therapy system and method" was invented by Peng Wang (Shanghai), Cheng Ni (Shanghai) and Xingen Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a therapeutic apparatus including an MRI apparatus configured to acquire MRI data with respect to a region of interest. The MRI apparatus may include a plurality of main magnetic field coils coaxially arranged along an axis. The MRI apparatus may also include a plurality of shielding coils arranged coaxially along the axis. A current within at least one of t...