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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:
Jun. 03, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2022
Applicant:

Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi, JP;

Inventors:

Wenyuan Qi, Vernon Hills, IL (US);

Kent C. Burr, Vernon Hills, IL (US);

Yi Qiang, Vernon Hills, IL (US);

Evren Asma, Vernon Hills, IL (US);

Jeffrey Kolthammer, Vernon Hills, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 6/4258 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); G01T 1/1641 (2013.01); G01T 1/2985 (2013.01); A61B 6/481 (2013.01);
Abstract

A PET scanner includes gamma-ray detector rings that form a bore through which an imaging subject is translated, a length of the bore defining an axial length of the PET scanner, the gamma-ray detector rings being movable along the axial length, the gamma-ray detector rings including gamma-ray detector modules therein, and processing circuitry configured to receive PET data associated with a plurality of transaxial slices of the imaging subject, the PET data including a first set of spatial information and timing information corresponding to a first data acquisition period for the gamma-ray detector modules in a first axial position and a second set of spatial information and timing information corresponding to a second data acquisition period for the gamma-ray detector modules in a second axial position, and reconstruct a PET image based on the first set of spatial and timing information and the second set of spatial and timing information.


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