US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS, NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on April 21 for "Medical image processing device, medical image processing method, medical image processing program, and radiation therapy device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,566, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan) and NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Chiba, Japan).

"Medical image processing device, medical image processing method, medical image processing program, and radiation therapy device" was invented by Ryusuke Hirai (Tokyo), Yukinobu Sakata (Kawasaki, Japan), Akiyuki Tanizawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Keiko Okaya (Tokyo) and Shinichiro Mori (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing device includes a first image acquiring unit, a second image acquiring unit, a first likelihood distribution cal...