The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2003
David J. Schyler, 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);
Nora Volkow, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
David J. Schyler, 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);
Nora Volkow, Chevy Chase, MD (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 for an event, generating an address signal representing a detecting channel, generating a detector channel signal including the time and address signals, and generating a composite signal including the channel signal and similarly generated signals. The composite signal includes events from detectors in a block and is serially output. An apparatus that serially transfers annihilation information from a block includes time signal generators for detectors in a block and an address and channel signal generator. The PET scanner includes a ring tomograph that mounts onto a portion of an animal, which includes opposing block pairs. Each of the blocks in a block pair includes a scintillator layer, detection array, front-end array, and a serial encoder. The serial encoder includes time signal generators and an address signal and channel signal generator.