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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1995
Everett W Stoub, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
William R George, Chicago, IL (US);
Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a system which corrects for attenuation artifacts in a SPECT study, a line source is parallel to the axis of rotation of the scintillation camera detector(s) and is scanned in a plane which is parallel to the detector. Advantageously, the line source is initially scanned at high speed across the detector to acquire preliminary transmission CT data and is subsequently scanned across the detector at lower speed to acquire additional transmission CT data. During rescanning, the shuttering of the line source, and/or the speed of the line source, is varied. This acquires transmission CT data which is more reliable and from which the attenuation of the patient may be more accurately calculated.
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