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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2020
Applicant:

Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);

Inventors:

Vijay Shah, Knoxville, TN (US);

Sven Zuehlsdorff, Knoxville, TN (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/12 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/12 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 6/461 (2013.01); A61B 6/481 (2013.01); A61B 6/486 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method include acquisition of positron emission tomography data of an object while a radiation source moves within the object, determination of a plurality of locations within the object, each of the plurality of locations associated with a respective time at which the radiation source was located at the location, determination of a respective time period associated with each of the plurality of locations, determination, for each of the determined time periods, of a frame of the positron emission tomography data associated with the determined time period, and, for each frame of the positron emission tomography data, generation of an image based on the frame and on the location associated with the time period associated with the frame.


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