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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2019
Applicant:
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Inventor:
Changlyong Kim, Brookfield, WI (US);
Assignee:
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01); G01T 1/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01T 1/248 (2013.01); G01T 1/2985 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for signal processing in a detector assembly of an imaging system. In one embodiment, an imaging system may include a plurality of detector blocks, each detector block including an array of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) devices divided into at least two regions, with the SiPM devices in the two or more regions transmitting signals to two or more distinct timing pick-off circuits. In this way, a SiPM array may be subdivided into regions with a signal summed from SiPMs of a single region being transmitted to a separate timing pick-off circuit.