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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2009
John E. Breeding, Knoxville, TN (US);
William F. Jones, Knoxville, TN (US);
Wing K. Luk, Knoxville, TN (US);
Andrew P. Moor, Knoxville, TN (US);
Johnny H. Reed, Clinton, TN (US);
David Townsend, Knoxville, TN (US);
John E. Breeding, Knoxville, TN (US);
William F. Jones, Knoxville, TN (US);
Wing K. Luk, Knoxville, TN (US);
Andrew P. Moor, Knoxville, TN (US);
Johnny H. Reed, Clinton, TN (US);
David Townsend, Knoxville, TN (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A patient bed drive mechanism, under control of a processor, is capable of continuously moving a patient bed through the a TOF-PET detector array having a stationary field of view (FOV) for a distance in excess of the physical extent of an axis of the array FOV. A direct memory access (DMA) rebinner card is coupled to the detector array to receive therefrom a stream of TOF-PET coincidence event data during the extent of movement of the bed. Image projection data are generated in real time from the acquired stream of TOF-PET coincidence event data via the DMA card.