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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Andrew Buckler, Wenham, MA (US);
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Andrew Buckler, Wenham, MA (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A nuclear medical imaging system employing radiation detection modules with pixelated scintillator crystals includes a scatter detector () configured to detect and label scattered and non-scattered detected radiation events stored in a list mode memory (). Coincident pairs of both scattered and non-scattered radiation events are detected and the corresponding lines of response (LOR) are determined. A first image representation of the examination region can be reconstructed using the LORs corresponding to both scattered and non-scattered detected radiation events to generate a lower resolution image () with good noise statistics. A second higher resolution image () of all or a subvolume of the examination region can be generated using LORs that correspond to non-scattered detected radiation events. A quantification processor is configured to extract at least one metric, e.g. volume, count rate, standard uptake value (SUV), or the like, from at least one of the lower resolution image, the higher resolution image, or a combined image ().