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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Yaron Hefetz, Kibbutz Alonim, IL;
Nurit Rivka Wartski, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Pavel Livshits, Haifa, IL;
Jonathan Sachs, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/12 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 10/04 (2006.01); A61B 18/02 (2006.01); A61B 18/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/502 (2013.01); A61B 6/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/12 (2013.01); A61B 6/4258 (2013.01); A61B 6/463 (2013.01); A61B 6/468 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); A61B 6/5282 (2013.01); A61B 18/02 (2013.01); A61B 18/12 (2013.01); A61B 2010/045 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for molecular breast imaging. In one embodiment, a method for nuclear medicine imaging comprises: during an acquisition of emission data from an anatomy of interest, calculating an average counts per pixel in non-target tissue; and responsive to the average counts per pixel reaching a threshold, automatically stopping the acquisition. In this way, an amount of time spent by a patient undergoing an MBI procedure is optimized for the patient.