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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2007
Applicants:
Bernd Schweizer, Herzogenrath, DE;
Heinrich Von Busch, Aachen, DE;
Inventors:
Bernd Schweizer, Herzogenrath, DE;
Heinrich von Busch, Aachen, DE;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/166 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for use in dirty isotope positron imaging uses information about a measured characteristic of an object () to generate a spurious coincidence correction. The spurious imaging correction is applied to data from a positron imaging examination of the object. The corrected data is used to generate a human readable image indicative of the object.