Invention Grant
- Patent Title: PET scanner and method for deciding arrangement of detectors
- Patent Title (中): PET扫描仪及其检测方法
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Application No.: US12936464Application Date: 2008-04-14
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Publication No.: US08222608B2Publication Date: 2012-07-17
- Inventor: Taiga Yamaya , Hideo Murayama
- Applicant: Taiga Yamaya , Hideo Murayama
- Applicant Address: JP Chiba
- Assignee: National Institute of Radiological Sciences
- Current Assignee: National Institute of Radiological Sciences
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiba
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/057284 WO 20080414
- International Announcement: WO2009/128131 WO 20091022
- Main IPC: G01T1/166
- IPC: G01T1/166

Abstract:
A PET scanner in which detector rings are arrayed in a multilayered manner so as to oppose each other in the body axis direction is provided. In the PET scanner, a predetermined number of detector units, each of which is made up of a predetermined number of detector rings, are arrayed so as to give each other a clearance, and a first ring set in which the clearance is less than or equal to a mean value of widths of two detector units forming each clearance and a second ring set constituted with a predetermined number of detector units are arrayed apart so as to give a clearance which is less than or equal to a mean value of the width of the first ring set and that of the second ring set, thereby imaging a field-of-view including the clearance and continuing in the body axis direction to an entire length of the first ring set and that of the second ring set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110024638A1 PET SCANNER AND METHOD FOR DECIDING ARRANGEMENT OF DETECTORS Public/Granted day:2011-02-03
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