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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
May. 13, 2020
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventors:
Ziad Burbar, Knoxville, TN (US);
James L. Corbeil, Knoxville, TN (US);
Jeffrey Bostrom, Knoxville, TN (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/29 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/4417 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); G01T 1/2985 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a PET detector assembly in a combined PET/CT scanner system having a backplane structure for supporting two or more PET detector rings that provides substantially balanced load on the gantry backplane while accommodating the varying number of PET detector rings between short axial PET FOV system as well as long axial PET FOV system.