US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Sept. 8 for "X-ray imaging apparatus and position determination support unit for X-ray imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,837, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"X-ray imaging apparatus and position determination support unit for X-ray imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Okumura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray imaging apparatus has a position determination support unit for that allows adjustment of the relative angular relationship between a detection surface of the X-ray detection element and the irradiation direction of the X-ray of the X-ray irradiation element. The X-ray imaging apparatus has an X-ray irradiation element, an X-ray detection element, an angular relationship detection elemen...