Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adjustable detector array for a nuclear medicine imaging system
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Application No.: US16747191Application Date: 2020-01-20
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Publication No.: US12061297B2Publication Date: 2024-08-13
- Inventor: Jean-Paul Bouhnik
- Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Applicant Address: US WI Milwaukee
- Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
- Current Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WI Waukesha
- Agency: McCoy Russell LLP
- Main IPC: A61B6/03
- IPC: A61B6/03 ; A61B6/00 ; A61B6/04 ; A61B6/06 ; A61B6/42 ; A61B6/58 ; G01T1/161 ; G01T1/24 ; G01T1/29

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system having a detector array. In one example, the detector array may include a plurality of adjustable imaging detectors arranged in subsets thereof, each of the plurality of adjustable imaging detectors including a detector unit, each detector unit having a plurality of rows of detector modules, wherein the plurality of adjustable imaging detectors may be arranged on an annular gantry, where an inner surface of the annular gantry may circumscribe a substantially rectangular aperture therethrough, and wherein each subset of the plurality of adjustable imaging detectors may be respectively disposed on a side of the inner surface and may extend within the substantially rectangular aperture.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210219937A1 ADJUSTABLE DETECTOR ARRAY FOR A NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2021-07-22
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