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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Bin Zhang, Cleveland, OH (US);
Chi-Hua Tung, Aurora, OH (US);
John Patrick Collins, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A positron emission tomography (PET) system includes a memory (), a subject support (), a categorizing unit (), and a reconstruction unit (). The memory () continuously records detected coincident event pairs detected by PET detectors (). The subject support () supports a subject and moves in a continuous movement through a field of view () of the PET detectors (). The categorizing unit () categorizes the recorded coincident pairs into each of a plurality of spatially defined virtual frame (). The reconstruction unit () reconstructs the categorized coincident pairs of each virtual frame into a frame image and combines the frame images into a common elongated image.