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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Cracow, PL;
Inventor:
Pawel Moskal, Czulowek, PL;
Assignee:
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI, Cracow, PL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/16 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/1603 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); G01T 1/2985 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hybrid TOF-PET/CT tomograph comprising a detection chamber, gamma radiation detectors, X-ray detectors and a movable X-ray source, wherein the gamma radiation detectors () and the X-ray detectors () surround the detection chamber () around the whole perimeter of the detection chamber (), and wherein the gamma radiation detectors () are located closer to the longitudinal axis () of the detection chamber () than the X-ray detectors (), and wherein the gamma radiation detectors () comprise polymer strips () made of a scintillation material having a density lower than the density of the X-ray radiation detectors ().