US Patent Issued to Rhode Island Hospital on July 14 for "Acquisition of proton computed tomography images" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,108, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, R.I.).

"Acquisition of proton computed tomography images" was invented by Ulrich Langner (Upton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a proton computed tomography (CT) scanner, and measuring sigma with a scintillator screen at an exit beam for each pencil beam scanned across an object for each gantry angle necessary to determine a total energy loss as the beam traverses an object of unknown thickness or material."

The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2022, under Application No. 18/147,455.

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