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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2009
Mehmet Aykac, Knoxville, TN (US);
Mark Musrock, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Carlyle L. Reynolds, Acworth, GA (US);
Mehmet Aykac, Knoxville, TN (US);
Mark Musrock, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Carlyle L. Reynolds, Acworth, GA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method, disclosure relates to for improving detection of true coincidence events and differentiating them from events detected from scattered and random gamma photons, comprises receiving electromagnetic radiation at a plurality of photo detectors that was generated by a scintillating crystal impacted by a gamma photon, and processing data received at a subset of the plurality of photo detectors that are closer to a scintillating crystal, thereby improving a timing coincidence window for detecting a coincidence event.
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