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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2002
Danny F. Newport, Knoxville, TN (US);
Michael E. Casey, Knoxville, TN (US);
Wing K. Luk, Knoxville, TN (US);
Johnny H. Reed, Clinton, TN (US);
Danny F. Newport, Knoxville, TN (US);
Michael E. Casey, Knoxville, TN (US);
Wing K. Luk, Knoxville, TN (US);
Johnny H. Reed, Clinton, TN (US);
CTI PET Systems, Inc., Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for three dimensional image reconstruction from data acquired in a positron emission tomograph (PET). This invention uses a parallel/pipelined architecture for processing the acquired data as it is acquired from the scanner. The asynchronously acquired data is synchronously stepped through the stages performing histogramming, normalization, transmission/attenuation, Mu image reconstruction, attenuation correction, rebinning, image reconstruction, scatter correction, and image display.