US Patent Issued to Beijing Hamamatsu Photon Techniques on July 28 for "Scintillation crystal array, detector, medical imaging device, and manufacturing method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,436, issued on July 28, was assigned to Beijing Hamamatsu Photon Techniques INC. (Beijing).

"Scintillation crystal array, detector, medical imaging device, and manufacturing method" was invented by Yongfei Han (Beijing), Suilao Yao (Beijing), Deyu Cao (Beijing) and Ruipeng Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scintillation crystal array, a detector, and a manufacturing method solve the image distortion problem in PET caused by ESR layers. The scintillation crystal array includes a plurality of scintillation crystal units, a gap is provided between each two adjacent scintillation crystal units, first reflecting layers are arr...