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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2008
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Andrew Buckler, Wenham, MA (US);
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Andrew Buckler, Wenham, MA (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A preclinical positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method includes acquiring time-of-flight localized PET imaging data from one or more non-human animal subjects and reconstructing the acquired data to form an image. In an illustrative PET scanner includes: radiation detectors () viewing an examination region; a subject support assembly () supporting a plurality of preclinical subjects in the examination region for simultaneous PET imaging; coincidence electronics () acquiring time-of-flight localized PET imaging data from the preclinical subjects using the radiation detectors; and reconstruction electronics () that (i) perform a filtering operation based at least in part on the time-of flight information, the filtering operation including at least one of discarding non-probative time-of-flight localized PET imaging data and associating time-of-flight localized PET imaging data with individual preclinical subjects and (ii) reconstruct the filtered data to form images of the preclinical subjects.