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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2004
Dennis E. Persyk, Hampshire, IL (US);
John C. Engdahl, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Dennis E. Persyk, Hampshire, IL (US);
John C. Engdahl, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
An improved method of, and apparatus for, nuclear imaging takes advantage of the ability to determine the depth of gamma ray/electron interaction within a semiconducting gamma ray detector to determine the (most highly probable) location of the first gamma ray/electron interaction within the detector. Lines of interaction constructed between opposing detector arrays, extending between the location of the first gamma ray/electron interaction in each detector associated with the coincident detection of gamma radiation, permits a positron-emitting object of interest to be imaged according to protocols known in the art, but with better spatial resolution than previously believed to have been known.