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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Garry Chinn, San Mateo, CA (US);
Craig S. Levin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Garry Chinn, San Mateo, CA (US);
Craig S. Levin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for determining a location of a photon event for an imaging system including a plurality of 3-D detectors. For one of the photons in the photon pair, an interaction in a first 3-D detector is detected. For the other of the photons in the photon pair, at least two interactions in a second 3-D detector are detected. A cone-surface projector function is produced based on the at least two interaction locations in the second 3-D detector. A projector function is produced based on the produced cone-surface projector function, the detected interaction in the first 3-D detector, and the at least two detected interactions in the second 3-D detector.