ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,454, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Apparatus and method for PET detector" was invented by Shaohui An (Shanghai) and Qiang Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PET detector and method thereof are provided. The PET detector may include: a crystal array including a plurality of crystal elements arranged in an array and light-splitting structures set on surfaces of the plurality of crystal elements, the light-splitting structures jointly define a light output surface of the crystal array; a semiconductor sensor array, which is set in opposite to the light output sur...