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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2014
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Jerome John Griesmer, Mentor, OH (US);
Thomas Leroy Laurence, North Royalton, OH (US);
KONINKLUKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A medical nuclear imaging system () and method () generate smooth energy histograms. Radiation events are detected by a plurality of detectors (), the radiation events localized to a plurality of pixels of the detectors (). The energy levels of the detected radiation events are estimated and the estimated energy levels are scaled with scaling parameters that scale the energy centroids of the plurality of pixels to target values differing by offsets around a common target value, the target values differing with spatial location of the plurality of pixels. Target value offsets are removed from the scaled energy levels and the detected radiation events are combined into an energy histogram using the energy levels with the target value offsets removed.