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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2009
Atsushi Ohtani, Kyoto, JP;
Masaharu Amano, Ibaraki, JP;
Yoshihiro Inoue, Kyoto, JP;
Kazumi Tanaka, Otsu, JP;
Tetsuro Mizuta, Kyoto, JP;
Atsushi Ohtani, Kyoto, JP;
Masaharu Amano, Ibaraki, JP;
Yoshihiro Inoue, Kyoto, JP;
Kazumi Tanaka, Otsu, JP;
Tetsuro Mizuta, Kyoto, JP;
Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
This invention has one object to provide radiation tomography apparatus that allows suppression of arithmetic load of detection data with a wider detector ring. In order to achieve this purpose, the radiation tomography apparatus according to this invention performs coincidence only when two scintillation counter crystals that detect gamma rays coincidentally (A) belong to the same ring unit, or (B) belong to each of the ring units adjacent to each other. Accordingly, a distance in the central axis direction between the radiation detecting elements is limited to be equal to or less than a thickness of the ring unit in the central axis direction. Accordingly, radiation tomography apparatus may be provided that allows generation of the sectional image suitable for diagnosis while arithmetic load is suppressed.