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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2020
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Jonathan Sachs, Haifa, IL;
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system having a detector array. In one example, the detector array may include a plurality of adjustable imaging detectors, each of the plurality of adjustable imaging detectors including a first detector unit or a second detector unit, each first detector unit having a plurality of rows of detector modules and each second detector unit having at least one row of detector modules, wherein each second detector unit may have fewer rows of detector modules than each first detector unit, the plurality of adjustable imaging detectors may be arranged on an annular gantry, the annular gantry configured for rotation about an axis of a cylindrical aperture of the annular gantry, the axis extending a length of the cylindrical aperture, and each of the plurality of adjustable imaging detectors may be disposed within the cylindrical aperture and may extend orthogonally toward the axis.