US Patent Issued to Tsinghua University on Feb. 18 for "Detection collimation unit, detection apparatus and SPECT imaging system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,690, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Detection collimation unit, detection apparatus and SPECT imaging system" was invented by Tianyu Ma (Beijing), Yaqiang Liu (Beijing), Xuewu Wang (Beijing) and Zhong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a detection collimation unit, a detection apparatus and a SPECT imaging system. The detection collimation unit includes: a scintillation crystal array configured to receive a gamma photon emitted by a radioactive source in a detected object; and a number of photoelectric devices configured to receive the gamma photon and converting the gamma p...