Universiteit Gent

Molecubes

Xeos Medical Nv

Roel Van Holen

Stefaan Vandenberghe

Vincent Keereman

Karel Deprez

Karen Van Audenhaege

Lara Da Rocha Vaz Pato

Jared W Moore

An imaging apparatus for imaging ex-vivo tissue specimens includes a positron emission tomography imaging module having at least one pair of PET detectors; a computed tomography imaging module including an X-ray source and an X-ray detector; a tissue specimen receiving element configured to receive the tissue specimen to be imaged.

Imaging apparatus for imaging ex-vivo tissue specimens

A collimator for a SPECT system, the collimator being adapted for absorbing and collimating gamma rays emitted by a radiation source within a field of view the collimator, said collimator having an alignment direction for directing along a longitudinal axis of a measuring cavity of the SPECT system and said collimator comprising at least one collimator body of radiation absorbing material, the collimator body comprising a plurality of apertures being formed in the collimator body, the plurality of apertures being arranged in a plurality of groups separated from each other in said alignment direction. The apertures of each group are oriented such as to define at least one projection view along a corresponding at least one projection direction. The plurality of said projection directions corresponding to each and every of said plurality of groups cover an angular range sufficiently large for sufficient image information for artifact-free reconstruction.

Stationary SPECT imaging

A collimating system () for collimating radiation received under different angles for performing tomography is described. The collimating system () comprises a static collimator () comprising a plurality of collimating apertures (), shutters () for separately and temporarily shutting at least two of said collimating apertures (), wherein the shutters () having a shutting element () for blocking said at least two collimating apertures (), and at least one collimating element () distinct from the shutting element () for collimating radiation passing through non-shut collimating apertures () in a direction so as to control overlap between radiation stemming from different non-shut collimating apertures (). The invention also relates to an imaging system comprising such a collimating system, a method for collimating and a corresponding controller and software related products.

Method and system for collimating

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Melsen, Belgium

Roel Van Holen