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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2001
Leonard F. Plut, Mentor, OH (US);
Gerhard P. Roos, Bainbridge, OH (US);
Andrew J. Ivan, Jr., Aurora, OH (US);
Frank C. Valentino, Solon, OH (US);
Other;
Abstract
A diagnostic imaging system includes a rotating gantry ( ) which defines a subject receiving aperture ( ). A rotatable source of high energy penetrating radiation ( ) and a corresponding two-dimensional flat panel x-ray detector ( ) are disposed across the subject receiving aperture ( ). A plurality of nuclear detector heads ( ) are movably attached to the rotating gantry ( ) in order to detect radiation emitted by a radiopharmaceutical injected into the subject ( ). Each of the nuclear detector heads ( ) within the system includes a variable radiation shield ( ) disposed adjacent a radiation receiving face on the detector head. The diagnostic imaging system may be operated in a fluoroscopic/radiographic mode in which an isocentric x-ray beam strikes the center of the detector surface or in a volume imaging mode.