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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Thomas Leroy Laurence, North Royalton, OH (US);
Sharon Xiaorong Wong, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 18/00 (2006.01); G01T 7/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/29 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 7/005 (2013.01); G01T 1/2985 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system () and a method () identify non-functioning pixels in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Data describing scintillation events localized to a plurality of pixels () of a PET scanner () is received. A count map histogram is generated from the received data. The count map histogram maps each of the pixels () to a count of scintillation events localized to the pixel (). One or more non-functioning pixels are identified from the count map histogram.