Patents by Inventor Taisuke TAKAYANAGI

Taisuke TAKAYANAGI 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: 9188685
    Abstract: A stacked type of radiation detector and a calibration method that enables the radiation detector to correct variations in sensor-specific output easily and within a short time, without using a water-phantom dose detector. The radiation detector is equipped with a sensor section including a plurality of sensors arranged in layers in a traveling direction of a particle beam. A dummy absorber has water-equivalent thickness equal to an average water-equivalent thickness of the sensors. A signal-processing unit calculates sensor-specific calibration coefficients using a measurement result obtained during irradiation of the radiation detector with the radiation when electrical signals developed in each sensor are measured, and a measurement result obtained during irradiation of the radiation detector with the radiation when the sensor section is moved in the traveling direction of the radiation, then the dummy absorber is set in place, and electrical signals developed in each sensor are measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke Takayanagi, Hideaki Nishiuchi, Masahiro Tadokoro, Yusuke Fujii, Takeji Sakae, Toshiyuki Terunuma
  • Patent number: 9132285
    Abstract: A radiation measuring device having a plurality of sensors configured to generate charges in response to the radiation includes a signal processing device. The signal processing device uses an signal generated by a proton beam irradiation device upon changing of beam energy and causes accumulation values of charges output from the sensors to be separately stored in a main control device for each value of the energy. The main control device calculates depth dose profiles for values of the beam energy from the accumulation values stored in the main control device and representing the charges. The main control device calculates a range of the beam for each of the values of the beam energy from the depth dose profiles, corrects the depth dose profiles for the values of the beam energy using a correction coefficient that depends on the range and sums the corrected depth dose profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke Takayanagi, Shinichiro Fujitaka, Chihiro Nakashima, Koji Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150099918
    Abstract: A radiation measuring device having a plurality of sensors configured to generate charges in response to the radiation includes a signal processing device. The signal processing device uses an signal generated by a proton beam irradiation device upon changing of beam energy and causes accumulation values of charges output from the sensors to be separately stored in a main control device for each value of the energy. The main control device calculates depth dose profiles for values of the beam energy from the accumulation values stored in the main control device and representing the charges. The main control device calculates a range of the beam for each of the values of the beam energy from the depth dose profiles, corrects the depth dose profiles for the values of the beam energy using a correction coefficient that depends on the range and sums the corrected depth dose profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Taisuke TAKAYANAGI, Shinichiro FUJITAKA, Chihiro NAKASHIMA, Koji MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 8874385
    Abstract: The present invention provides, at low cost, a multilayer radiation detector whose position relative to a beam axis can be verified. The radiation detector includes a plurality of sensors that react to radiation and are stacked in parallel inlayers in a traveling direction of the radiation. The sensors are each sectioned into a central region including the center of the sensor and another region surrounding the central region. The radiation detector independently measures signals measured by the central regions and signals measured by the other regions. Thus, the position of the radiation detector can be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisuke Takayanagi, Hideaki Nihongi, Yusuke Fujii, Hiroshi Akiyama, Masahiro Tadokoro, Rintaro Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20110231147
    Abstract: The present invention provides, at low cost, a multilayer radiation detector whose position relative to a beam axis can be verified. The radiation detector includes a plurality of sensors that react to radiation and are stacked in parallel inlayers in a traveling direction of the radiation. The sensors are each sectioned into a central region including the center of the sensor and another region surrounding the central region. The radiation detector independently measures signals measured by the central regions and signals measured by the other regions. Thus, the position of the radiation detector can be verified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke TAKAYANAGI, Hideaki NIHONGI, Yusuke FUJII, Hiroshi AKIYAMA, Masahiro TADOKORO, Rintaro FUJIMOTO