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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2017
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Jicun Hu, Knoxville, TN (US);
Vladimir Y. Panin, Knoxville, TN (US);
Anne M. Smith, Lenoir City, TN (US);
William Curtis Howe, Knoxville, TN (US);
Vijay Shah, Knoxville, TN (US);
Frank Kehren, Knoxville, TN (US);
Michael E. Casey, Louisville, TN (US);
Matthew Baker, Knoxville, TN (US);
Bernard Bendriem, Knoxville, TN (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of processing and reconstructing dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) sinogram data comprises: acquiring PET sinogram data using continuous bed motion having a varying velocity; recording a plurality of position-time coordinate pairs while acquiring the PET sinogram data; determining respective acquisition times of each of a plurality of slices of the image, based on the plurality of position-time coordinates; and reconstructing respective parametric images for each respective slice in the plurality of slices.