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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2009
Daniel Gagnon, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Ognian Ivanov, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Barry Roberts, Gurnee, IL (US);
Daniel Gagnon, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Ognian Ivanov, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Barry Roberts, Gurnee, IL (US);
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Abstract
A method of processing positron emission tomography (PET) information obtained from a PET detector having a plurality of detector regions, each detector region having at least one detector module and a corresponding regional collector, the method including the steps of receiving PET event information for a single PET event, the PET event information including energy information and crystal position information of the single PET event; receiving non-detector event information; generating an event list that includes (1) a PET event entry, the PET event entry including a fine time stamp, the energy information, and the crystal position information, and (2) a non-detector event entry that includes the received non-detector event information; and transmitting the generated event list to a computer for off-line processing.