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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2023
Applicant:

GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);

Inventors:

Floribertus Philippus Martinus Heukensfeldt Jansen, Ballston Lake, NY (US);

Timothy Wayne Deller, Brookfield, WI (US);

Assignee:

GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 6/4266 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5294 (2013.01); G06T 11/003 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a system for limiting coincidence data includes detecting a plurality of coincidence events during a scan of a subject with a detector array of a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, wherein the PET scanner includes a plurality of detector rings disposed along a longitudinal axis of the PET scanner, and each detector ring includes a plurality of detectors. The method also includes limiting data associated with the plurality of coincidence events from the scan so that the data varies in a radial extent relative to a center of a field of view of the scan.


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