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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2014
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Thomas Leroy Laurence, North Royalton, OH (US);
Sharon Xiaorong Wang, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01); G01T 7/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/2985 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); G01T 1/1647 (2013.01); G01T 7/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical nuclear imaging system () and corresponding method () are provided. A plurality of pixels () detect radiation events and estimate the energy of the detected radiation events. A memory () stores a plurality of energy windows (), the energy windows corresponding to the pixels. An event verification module () windows the radiation event with the energy windows corresponding to the detecting pixels. A reconstruction processor () reconstructs the windowed radiation events into an image representation.