US Patent Issued to Elekta on May 26 for "Imaging system for a radiotherapy device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,521, issued on May 26, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Imaging system for a radiotherapy device" was invented by Per Carlsson (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an imaging system for a radiotherapy device which is configured to provide therapeutic radiation to a patient via a source of therapeutic radiation. The imaging system comprises a source of imaging radiation, a CBCT panel detector, and a CT detector, wherein the source of imaging radiation is configured to be adjustable such that in a first configuration it is configured to emit imaging radiation towards the CT det...