Patents by Inventor Ryuji Tamaki

Ryuji Tamaki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5949843
    Abstract: An X-ray computer tomography apparatus equipped with an X-ray scanner for converting X-rays emitted from an X-ray source to a fan beam by a collimator, irradiating the fan beam to an object and detecting the X-rays passing through the object of a multi-channel X-ray detector includes a memory for storing data of a change quantity of a fan beam position with respect to a tilt angle of the X-ray scanner, a device for setting the X-ray scanner to a predetermined tilt angle, a control unit for controlling the position of the X-ray source so that the fan beam position becomes a reference position, on the basis of the change quantity of the fan beam position corresponding to the predetermined tilt angle read out from the memory and set, and a unit for executing X-ray tomography measurement or imaging of the object under the state where the fan beam position is controlled to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Tamaki, Koichi Hirokawa