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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2005
Applicant:
Yuan-chuan Tai, St. Louis, MO (US);
Inventor:
Yuan-Chuan Tai, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 1/166 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for increasing the resolution of a Positron Emission Tomography scanner. The method and apparatus comprise elements and acts for centering a region of interest of an object at a point between first and second detector arrays at least about ten percent closer to the first detector array than to the second detector array.