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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventors:
Ronald Malmin, Chicago, IL (US);
James Frank Caruba, Bartlett, IL (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/17 (2006.01); G01T 1/208 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/171 (2013.01); G01T 1/208 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method for estimating count loss in a gamma camera comprising injecting a synthetic pulse at a given rate into a data stream emanating from a photo detector; integrating the synthetic pulse into the data stream to form an integrated data stream; determining a number of synthetic pulses from the data stream that pass onto a final image; and determining the count loss from the Equation (2)