Invention Grant
- Patent Title: PET scanner and image reconstruction method thereof
- Patent Title (中): PET扫描仪及其图像重建方法
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Application No.: US12450803Application Date: 2007-04-17
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Publication No.: US08594404B2Publication Date: 2013-11-26
- Inventor: Taiga Yamaya , Hideo Murayama , Shinichi Minohara
- Applicant: Taiga Yamaya , Hideo Murayama , Shinichi Minohara
- Applicant Address: JP Chiba-Shi
- Assignee: National Institute of Radiological Sciences
- Current Assignee: National Institute of Radiological Sciences
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiba-Shi
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/058361 WO 20070417
- International Announcement: WO2008/129666 WO 20081030
- Main IPC: A61B6/03
- IPC: A61B6/03

Abstract:
A plurality of detector rings in which detectors arranged densely or spatially in a ring shape or in a polygonal shape are arranged, with an open space kept in the body axis direction, coincidences are measured for some of or all of detector pairs connecting the detector rings apart from the open space to perform three-dimensional image reconstruction, thereby imaging the open space between the detector rings as a tomographic image. Therefore, the open space is secured, with the deteriorated quality of an image suppressed, thus making it possible to easily gain access to a patient under PET scanning from outside a gantry and also provide irradiation of particle beams for cancer treatment as well as X-ray CT scanning.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100128956A1 PET SCANNER AND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2010-05-27
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