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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Thomas Leroy Laurence, North Royalton, OH (US);
Sharon Xiaorong Wang, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/20 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/2985 (2013.01); G01T 1/1647 (2013.01); G01T 1/2018 (2013.01); G01T 7/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system () and a method () compensate for one or more dead pixels in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. A pixel compensation processor receives PET data describing a target volume of a subject. The PET data is missing data for one or more dead pixels. The pixel compensation estimates PET data for the dead pixels from the received PET data.