Invention Grant
- Patent Title: TOF-PET apparatus, detector ring and detector
- Patent Title (中): TOF-PET装置,检测环和检测器
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Application No.: US13161689Application Date: 2011-06-16
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Publication No.: US08415631B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- Inventor: Kenta Moriyasu , Takuzo Takayama
- Applicant: Kenta Moriyasu , Takuzo Takayama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Otawara-shi
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Otawara-shi
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-137732 20100616
- Main IPC: G01T1/164
- IPC: G01T1/164

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a TOF-PET apparatus includes a plurality of detector rings arranged along a central axis thereof. Each of the detector rings comprises a plurality of scintillators and a plurality of photomultipliers. The scintillators are arranged on a substantial circumference around the central axis and generate scintillation in response to pair annihilation gamma-rays from a subject. The photomultipliers generate an electric signal in accordance with the generated scintillation. A length of each of the scintillators along a radial direction of the substantial circumference is set to a range in which a value of a total number of counts/time resolution of coincidence events of pair annihilation gamma-rays is more improved than when a reference scintillator whose probability of interaction with pair annihilation gamma-rays is adjusted to 80% is used under conditions of a constant total volume of the scintillators.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110309256A1 TOF-PET APPARATUS, DETECTOR RING AND DETECTOR Public/Granted day:2011-12-22
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