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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2003
David J. Schlyer, Bellport, NY (US);
Paul O'connor, Bellport, NY (US);
Craig Woody, Setauket, NY (US);
Sachin Shrirang Junnarkar, Sound Beach, NY (US);
Veljko Radeka, Bellport, NY (US);
Paul Vaska, Sound Beach, NY (US);
Jean-francois Pratte, Stony Brook, NY (US);
David J. Schlyer, Bellport, NY (US);
Paul O'Connor, Bellport, NY (US);
Craig Woody, Setauket, NY (US);
Sachin Shrirang Junnarkar, Sound Beach, NY (US);
Veljko Radeka, Bellport, NY (US);
Paul Vaska, Sound Beach, NY (US);
Jean-Francois Pratte, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, Upton, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of serially transferring annihilation information in a compact positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes generating a time signal representing a time-of-occurrence of an annihilation event, generating an address signal representing a channel detecting the annihilation event, and generating a channel signal including the time and address signals. The method also includes generating a composite signal including the channel signal and another similarly generated channel signal concerning another annihilation event. An apparatus that serially transfers annihilation information includes a time signal generator, address signal generator, channel signal generator, and composite signal generator. The time signal is asynchronous and the address signal is synchronous to a clock signal. A PET scanner includes a scintillation array, detection array, front-end array, and a serial encoder. The serial encoders include the time signal generator, address signal generator, channel signal generator, and composite signal generator.