US Patent Issued to Shimadzu on Nov. 11 for "X-ray phase imaging apparatus and display method of preview image in X-ray phase imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,883, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shimadzu Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"X-ray phase imaging apparatus and display method of preview image in X-ray phase imaging apparatus" was invented by Kana Kojima (Kyoto, Japan), Yuto Maeda (Kyoto, Japan) and Takahiro Doki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray phase imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source; a detector; a plurality of gratings; a rotation mechanism; an image processor configured to generate a phase contrast image and to generate a preview image prior to capture of the phase contrast image; and a controller configured to control function of displaying on a display ...