US Patent Issued to Sun Nuclear on April 22 for "Scintillator-based radiation therapy quality assurance" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,125, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sun Nuclear Corp. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Scintillator-based radiation therapy quality assurance" was invented by Jeffrey M. Kapatoes (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer software are disclosed for determining a shape of a radiation field generated by a radiation delivery system through the use of a scintillator and a camera that is configured to acquire images of light emitted by the scintillator during delivery of a radiation beam. A support structure may be mounted to the radiation delivery system and the scintillator and camera may be fixed to the suppo...