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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1999
Adi Balan, Haifa, IL;
Yigal Shrem, Haifa, IL;
Albert Lonn, Beaconsfield, GB;
Benny Hajaj, Zoran, IL;
Naor Wainer, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Yaron Hefetz, Herzelia, IL;
Gideon Berlad, Haifa, IL;
Leonid Yakubovsky, Kiryat-Bialik, IL;
Adi Balan, Haifa, IL;
Yigal Shrem, Haifa, IL;
Albert Lonn, Beaconsfield, GB;
Benny Hajaj, Zoran, IL;
Naor Wainer, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Yaron Hefetz, Herzelia, IL;
Gideon Berlad, Haifa, IL;
Leonid Yakubovsky, Kiryat-Bialik, IL;
Elgems Ltd., Tirat-Hacarmel, IL;
Abstract
A method of producing a nuclear medicine image of a subject comprising the steps of acquiring nuclear image data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image, the data being acquired by at least one gamma camera head () rotating about the subject at an average first rate, acquiring x-ray imaging data suitable to produce an x-ray tomographic image for attenuation correction of the gamma camera image, the data being acquired by an array of detectors () irradiated by an x-ray source () rotating around the subject at an average second rate which is within a factor of 10 of the first rate, and reconstructing an attenuation corrected nuclear medicine image utilizing the nuclear imaging data and x-ray imaging data.