Patents by Inventor Takahiro Tadokoro

Takahiro Tadokoro 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: 10722734
    Abstract: The radiation detection device includes a plurality of radiation detectors arranged in a row and is inserted into the body of patient subjected to the X-ray therapy. An X-ray detection signal (photon) is output from each of the radiation detectors that detects the X-ray applied to the patient. The dose rate measurement device separately connected to each of the radiation detectors obtains the dos rate at the position of each radiation detector based on the signals. The irradiation direction determination device determines whether the row of radiation detectors matches the irradiation direction of the X-ray using the dos rate obtained by each of the dose rate measurement devices. When the row of radiation detectors matches the irradiation direction, the energy distribution analysis device obtains an energy distribution using the dose rate at the positions of the radiation detectors by applying, for example, an inverse problem analysis called an unfolding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Nagumo, Takahiro Tadokoro, Yuichiro Ueno, Katsunori Ueno, Kouichi Okada, Shuichi Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20200114172
    Abstract: A radiation monitoring device 1 includes a scintillator portion 10 which emits light whose intensity depends on a dose of incident radiation, an optical fiber 20 which transmits photons generated in the scintillator portion 10, a photoelectric converter 30 which converts photons transmitted by the optical fiber 20 to electric signals, a signal counter 40 which counts each of electric signals after being converted by the photoelectric converter 30 with a certain dead time adjusted relative to time width of an irradiation pulse of radiation, a dose calculation unit 50 which calculates a dose from a signal count value counted by the signal counter 40, and a display unit 60 which displays a result of measurement calculated by the dose calculation unit 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichiro UENO, Takahiro TADOKORO, Shuichi HATAKEYAMA, Yasushi NAGUMO, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA
  • Patent number: 10605928
    Abstract: The dose measurement device includes: a radiation sensor constituted by a light emitting portion that is made of a polycrystalline scintillator and emits light of intensity dependent on an amount of incident radiation and a cover covering the light emitting portion; an optical fiber that is connected to the radiation sensor and transmits the photons emitted by the polycrystalline scintillator; a photoelectric converter for converting the photons transmitted by the optical fiber into electrical signals; a calculation device for measuring each of the electrical signals through the conversion by the photoelectric converter of each photon, calculating a count rate, and specifying a dose rate; and a display device for displaying measurement results calculated by the calculation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Ueno, Takahiro Tadokoro, Yasushi Nagumo, Shuichi Hatakeyama, Kouichi Okada
  • Publication number: 20200064495
    Abstract: A radiation monitor according to the present invention includes: a radiation sensing unit which includes phosphors emitting a photon with respect to an incident radiation; and a photon sending unit which sends the photon emitted from the phosphors of the radiation sensing unit, wherein the phosphors form a multilayer structure including a first phosphor and a second phosphor, and a photon absorbing layer absorbing a photon emitted from a phosphor is provided between the first phosphor and the second phosphor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shuichi HATAKEYAMA, Takahiro TADOKORO, Yuichiro UENO, Yasushi NAGUMO, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20190353804
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a radiation detecting unit including a fluorescent body expressed by the formula ATaO4: B, C (in the formula, A is selected from at least one kind of element from among rare-earth elements involving 4f-4f transitions, B is selected from at least one kind of element, different from A, from among rare-earth elements involving 4f-4f transitions, and C is selected from at least one kind of element from among rare-earth elements involving 5d-4f transitions); an optical fiber that transmits photons generated by the fluorescent body; a light detector that converts the photons transmitted via the optical fiber 3 one by one into electrical pulse signals; a counter that counts the number of electrical pulse signals converted by the light detector; an analysis and display device 6 that obtains a radiation dose rate on the basis of the number of electrical pulse signals counted by the counter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Shuichi HATAKEYAMA, Takahiro TADOKORO, Yuichiro UENO, Yasushi NAGUMO, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20190290935
    Abstract: A radiation monitor 1 includes a light-emitting unit 10 which generates light having an intensity depending on an amount of an incident radiation, an optical fiber 20 which sends a photon generated by the light-emitting unit 10, a photoelectric converter 30 which transmits one electric pulse to one sent photon, a dose calculation device 40 which counts the electric pulse amplified by the photoelectric converter 30 and converts the counted value of the measured electric pulses into a dose of the radiation, and a display device 50. The dose calculation device 40 counts the electric signals converted from the photon by the photoelectric converter 30 to calculate a counting rate, and stops the counting when the counting rate exceeds a predetermined threshold, and performs counting when the counting rate is less than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichiro UENO, Takahiro TADOKORO, Yasushi NAGUMO, Shuichi HATAKEYAMA, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20190209870
    Abstract: A radiation therapy apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of a dose distribution includes an X-ray generation device that is provided at an arm portion of a rotation gantry, a radiation detector that is insertable into the body of a patient, a dose calculation device, and a feedback control device. An X-ray generated due to collision of an electron beam with a target in the X-ray generation device is applied to an affected part (cancer) of a patient on a bed. The radiation detector which is insertable into the body detects the X-ray applied to the affected part so as to output a photon to obtain a dose rate and a dose based thereon. The feedback control device either controls the X-ray generation device such that the obtained dose becomes a set dose or controls the radiation generation device such that the obtained dose rate becomes a set dose rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichiro UENO, Takahiro TADOKORO, Yasushi NAGUMO, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA, Shuichi HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190204457
    Abstract: Provided is a radiation monitor, including: a radiation detection unit which includes a radiation detection element, the radiation detection element emitting light of a predetermined light emission wavelength; a light emission unit which emits light of a wavelength different from the light emission wavelength; a wavelength selection unit which passes the light of the light emission wavelength, and is set to a first mode to block the light from the light emission unit; an optical transmission line which transmits the light; a light detection unit which converts the light passing through the wavelength selection unit into an electric pulse; and a control unit which measures a count rate of the electric pulse, and determines whether at least the light emission unit is degraded on the basis of the count rate and a light intensity of the light emission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro TADOKORO, Katsunori UENO, Yuichiro UENO, Kouichi OKADA, Shuichi HATAKEYAMA, Yasushi NAGUMO, Yoshinobu SAKAKIBARA, Toru SHIBUTANI, Takahiro ITOU
  • Publication number: 20190175950
    Abstract: The radiation detection device includes a plurality of radiation detectors arranged in a row and is inserted into the body of patient subjected to the X-ray therapy. An X-ray detection signal (photon) is output from each of the radiation detectors that detects the X-ray applied to the patient. The dose rate measurement device separately connected to each of the radiation detectors obtains the dos rate at the position of each radiation detector based on the signals. The irradiation direction determination device determines whether the row of radiation detectors matches the irradiation direction of the X-ray using the dos rate obtained by each of the dose rate measurement devices. When the row of radiation detectors matches the irradiation direction, the energy distribution analysis device obtains an energy distribution using the dose rate at the positions of the radiation detectors by applying, for example, an inverse problem analysis called an unfolding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Yasushi NAGUMO, Takahiro TADOKORO, Yuichiro UENO, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA, Shuichi HATAKEYAMA
  • Patent number: 10224122
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a reactor instrumentation system that can be easily repaired or replaced. The invention includes: an instrumentation tube provided in a reactor core; a gas flow pipe provided in the instrumentation tube; a suction mechanism for supplying gas containing oxygen to the gas flow pipe; and a nuclide analysis device for measuring a nuclide in the gas in the gas flow pipe. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a reactor instrumentation system that can be easily repaired or replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Okada, Takahiro Tadokoro, Katsunori Ueno, Yasushi Nagumo
  • Publication number: 20190018148
    Abstract: The dose measurement device includes: a radiation sensor constituted by a light emitting portion that is made of a polycrystalline scintillator and emits light of intensity dependent on an amount of incident radiation and a cover covering the light emitting portion; an optical fiber that is connected to the radiation sensor and transmits the photons emitted by the polycrystalline scintillator; a photoelectric converter for converting the photons transmitted by the optical fiber into electrical signals; a calculation device for measuring each of the electrical signals through the conversion by the photoelectric converter of each photon, calculating a count rate, and specifying a dose rate; and a display device for displaying measurement results calculated by the calculation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichiro UENO, Takahiro TADOKORO, Yasushi NAGUMO, Shuichi HATAKEYAMA, Kouichi OKADA
  • Patent number: 9889424
    Abstract: A method for producing a radionuclide is provided that produces molybdenum trioxide 99 (Mo-99.O3) and technetium oxide 99m (Tc-99m2.O7) by emitting an electron beam accelerated by an electron linear accelerator to a molybdenum trioxide 100 (Mo-100.O3) powder sample, and which separates and purifies technetium oxide 99m from both the molybdenum trioxide 99 and the technetium oxide 99m by using a radionuclide separation/purification unit. The method for producing a radionuclide supplies temperature-regulated gas to the molybdenum trioxide 100 powder sample during an irradiation period during which the electron beam is emitted to the molybdenum trioxide 100 powder sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tadokoro, Yuko Kani
  • Publication number: 20170323696
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: an electron beam accelerator (2); a container (4) housing a raw material (3) for radioactive nuclide production, said raw material including molybdenum 100; a heating device (5) that heats the raw material (3) for radioactive nuclide production; an adsorbent (81) that adsorbs technetium compounds including technetium 99m generated by the heated raw material (3) for radioactive nuclide production; an eluent supply device (10) that supplies an eluent (L1) that causes elution of the technetium compound adsorbed to the adsorbent (81); and a drug recovery unit (13) that recovers the eluent (L2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuko KANI, Takahiro TADOKORO
  • Publication number: 20170315241
    Abstract: A radiation monitor for accurately measuring the dose rate of radiation by suppressing the risk of explosion or the like is provided. The radiation monitor includes a radiation emitting element which includes a light emitting part emitting light of an intensity corresponding to a dose rate of incident radiation, an optical fiber which is connected to the radiation emitting element and transmits the light emitted from the light emitting part, an electric pulse converter which is connected to the optical fiber and transmits one electric pulse for one photon of the transmitted light, an electric pulse detector which is connected to the electric pulse converter and counts the electric pulse transmitted from the electric pulse converter, and an analyzer which is connected to the electric pulse detector and converts the electric pulse count rate obtained by the electric pulse detector into a radiation dose rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro TADOKORO, Kazuo TOMINAGA, Katsunori UENO, Kouichi OKADA, Yasushi NAGUMO, Hitoshi KUWABARA, Keisuke SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170062084
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a reactor instrumentation system that can be easily repaired or replaced. The invention includes: an instrumentation tube provided in a reactor core; a gas flow pipe provided in the instrumentation tube; a suction mechanism for supplying gas containing oxygen to the gas flow pipe; and a nuclide analysis device for measuring a nuclide in the gas in the gas flow pipe. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a reactor instrumentation system that can be easily repaired or replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kouichi OKADA, Takahiro TADOKORO, Katsunori UENO, Yasushi NAGUMO
  • Publication number: 20160363504
    Abstract: A radioactive gas measurement apparatus comprises: a radiation measurement cell comprising an inlet pipe and a discharge pipe, the radiation measurement cell introducing and discharging a radioactive gas containing a nuclide to be measured and a positron emitter nuclide through the inlet pipe and the discharge pipe; a radiation detector for measuring a radiation generated from the radioactive gas; and a radiation collimator allowing the radiation measurement cell to communicate with the radiation detector and setting a predetermined radiation measurement geometry condition between the radiation measurement cell and the radiation detector. Then, as the predetermined radiation measurement geometry condition, an inner wall area of the radiation measurement cell which the radiation detector views through the radiation collimator is set equal to or less than a half of a total inner wall area of the radiation measurement cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi KITAGUCHI, Takahiro Tadokoro, Katsunori Ueno, Hitoshi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 9519067
    Abstract: A radioactive gas measurement apparatus comprises: a radiation measurement cell comprising an inlet pipe and a discharge pipe, the radiation measurement cell introducing and discharging a radioactive gas containing a nuclide to be measured and a positron emitter nuclide through the inlet pipe and the discharge pipe; a radiation detector for measuring a radiation generated from the radioactive gas; and a radiation collimator allowing the radiation measurement cell to communicate with the radiation detector and setting a predetermined radiation measurement geometry condition between the radiation measurement cell and the radiation detector. Then, as the predetermined radiation measurement geometry condition, an inner wall area of the radiation measurement cell which the radiation detector views through the radiation collimator is set equal to or less than a half of a total inner wall area of the radiation measurement cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitaguchi, Takahiro Tadokoro, Katsunori Ueno, Hitoshi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 9274233
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement unit and measurement method for reducing attenuation due to optical fiber length and SN degradation due to background in a dosage rate monitor that uses optical fiber. This system comprises: a radiation detector for detecting radiation dosage; a light source for irradiating stimulating light on the radiation detector; a photodetector for detecting light generated by the radiation detector; an optical fiber for connecting the photodetector and the radiation detector and light source, and transmitting light from the light source and light from the radiation detector; a measurement unit for counting the pulses outputted from the photodetector; and an analysis unit for extracting the luminous energy originating from the radiation detector, from time information, wave height information, and the count value, which are measurement results obtained by the measurement unit, and converting the luminous energy to a dosage and dosage rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunori Ueno, Hiroshi Kitaguchi, Takahiro Tadokoro, Akihisa Kaihara, Koichi Okada, Yoshinobu Sakakibara, Yuta Inamura, Hitoshi Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20160023182
    Abstract: A method for producing a radionuclide is provided that produces molybdenum trioxide 99 (Mo-99.O3) and technetium oxide 99m (Tc-99m2.O7) by emitting an electron beam accelerated by an electron linear accelerator to a molybdenum trioxide 100 (Mo-100.O3) powder sample, and which separates and purifies technetium oxide 99m from both the molybdenum trioxide 99 and the technetium oxide 99m by using a radionuclide separation/purification unit. The method for producing a radionuclide supplies temperature-regulated gas to the molybdenum trioxide 100 powder sample during an irradiation period during which the electron beam is emitted to the molybdenum trioxide 100 powder sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro TADOKORO, Yuko KANI
  • Publication number: 20150123002
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement unit and measurement method for reducing attenuation due to optical fiber length and SN degradation due to background in a dosage rate monitor that uses optical fiber. This system comprises: a radiation detector for detecting radiation dosage; a light source for irradiating stimulating light on the radiation detector; a photodetector for detecting light generated by the radiation detector; an optical fiber for connecting the photodetector and the radiation detector and light source, and transmitting light from the light source and light from the radiation detector; a measurement unit for counting the pulses outputted from the photodetector; and an analysis unit for extracting the luminous energy originating from the radiation detector, from time information, wave height information, and the count value, which are measurement results obtained by the measurement unit, and converting the luminous energy to a dosage and dosage rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsunori Ueno, Hiroshi Kitaguchi, Takahiro Tadokoro, Akihisa Kaihara, Koichi Okada, Yoshinobu Sakakibara, Yuta Inamura, Hitoshi Kuwabara