US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 20 for "Radiation detection apparatus and radiation imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,804, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation detection apparatus and radiation imaging system" was invented by Tomoki Komatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tamaki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detection apparatus comprises a rectangular sensor panel having a pixel array including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and a scintillator layer on which a plurality of columnar crystals configured to convert radiation into light are arranged. The scintillator layer has one side along an outer shape of the sensor panel and an opposite sid...