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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2007
Thomas Laurence, North Royalton, OH (US);
Jerome J. Griesmer, Mentor, OH (US);
Jeffrey A. Kolthammer, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Andreas Thon, Aachen, DE;
Ralph Brinks, Hagen, DE;
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Thomas Laurence, North Royalton, OH (US);
Jerome J. Griesmer, Mentor, OH (US);
Jeffrey A. Kolthammer, Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Andreas Thon, Aachen, DE;
Ralph Brinks, Hagen, DE;
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A time of flight positron emission tomography apparatus () includes a detector (), a data acquisition system (), a coincidence system () and a reconstructor (). Various elements of an imaging chain influence the temporal resolution of the system () so that positron data collected along different lines of response is characterized by different temporal resolutions. The different temporal resolutions are used to estimate the positions of detected events along their respective lines of response.