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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Moshe Levy, Zichron Yakov, IL;
Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Zichron Yakov, IL;
Yariv Grobshtein, Haifa, IL;
Gil Amisar, Haifa, IL;
Yaron Hefetz, Kibbutz Alonim, IL;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for calibrating a nuclear medicine imaging system. In one embodiment, a method comprises: detecting, with a plurality of detectors, photons emitted by a calibration source comprising a radioactive line source and a fluorescence source, while pivoting one or more detectors of the plurality of detectors; and calibrating, with a processor communicatively coupled to the plurality of detectors, each detector of the plurality of detectors based on energy measurements of the detected photons. In this way, a two-point energy calibration of detectors can be performed with a single isotope, and without removing or adjusting a collimator attached to the detector.