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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2016
Applicant:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Inventor:
Frank P. DiFilippo, Strongsville, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/29 (2006.01); G21K 1/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/06 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/2985 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 6/06 (2013.01); A61B 6/4291 (2013.01); A61B 6/508 (2013.01); G01T 1/1648 (2013.01); G21K 1/02 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to increasing the spatial resolution of a clinical positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. The spatial resolution of the clinical PET scanner can be increased by placing a collimator, including a plurality of pinholes, inside the clinical PET scanner. Coincidence data of the annihilation photons are acquired by the PET scanner. A computer associates a pinhole location with the two detected locations of the coincident photons. All three locations are then used in the reconstruction of a high-resolution PET image.