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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1998
Charles W. Stearns, New Berlin, WI (US);
William J. Bridge, Watertown, WI (US);
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
A method for reducing required memory in a PET acquisition system processor wherein imaging data is collected and binned in a two dimensional histogram of coincident counts, the two dimensions being a flight path angle &thgr; and a distance R from the center of an imaging area, the method including the steps of determining when data acquired at a current acquisition angle will not include data corresponding to a specific flight angle and, when this is the case, storing the data corresponding to the specific flight angle on a secondary memory storage device independent of the processor memory. The method also includes a back projection method for using the stored data to construct an image and the invention includes an apparatus for performing the method.