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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2009
Applicants:
Carsten Degenhardt, Aachen, DE;
Thomas Frach, Aachen, DE;
Gordian Prescher, Cologne, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/20 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/1644 (2013.01); G01T 1/00 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01);
Abstract
When detecting scintillation events in a nuclear imaging system, time-stamping and energy-gating processing is incorporated into autonomous detection modules (ADM) () to reduce downstream processing. Each ADM () is removably coupled to a detector fixture (), and comprises a scintillation crystal array () and associated light detect or (s) (), such as a silicon photomultiplier or the like. The light detector(s) () is coupled to a processing module () in or on the ADM (), which performs the energy gating and time-stamping.