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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2017
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Jerimy Polf, Towson, MD (US);
Emily Draeger, Baltimore, MD (US);
Stephen Peterson, Claremont, ZA;
Dennis Mackin, Houston, TX (US);
A. Sam Beddar, Houston, TX (US);
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques for imaging radioactive emission in a target volume include receiving data indicating a set of one or more known emission energies associated with a high energy particle source and determining a Compton line for each emission energy in the set. A Compton camera collects location and deposited energy from an interaction associated with a single source event from a target volume of a subject. For the single source event, an earliest deposited energy, E, and first scattering angle, θ, and a cone of possible locations for the source event are determined. A particular location for the high energy particle source within the target volume without including the single source event, if Eis not within a predetermined interval of the Compton line for at least one of known emission energies. A solution is presented on a display device.