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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2007
Applicants:
Scott Metzler, Haddonfield, NJ (US);
Roberto Accorsi, St. Davids, PA (US);
Robert M. Lewitt, Stratford, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Scott Metzler, Haddonfield, NJ (US);
Roberto Accorsi, St. Davids, PA (US);
Robert M. Lewitt, Stratford, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention is directed to a collimator and collimation techniques. Specifically, the invention is directed to a collimator and method for collimation wherein the collimator combines the resolution and sensitivity properties of pinhole Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) imaging with the 2D complete-sampling properties of fan-beam collimators.