Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for collaborative tuning of gamma camera
- Patent Title (中): 伽马相机协同调谐方法
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Application No.: US12560055Application Date: 2009-09-15
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Publication No.: US08822910B2Publication Date: 2014-09-02
- Inventor: Sharon Xiaorong Wang , James Frank Caruba , John Thomas Pawlak
- Applicant: Sharon Xiaorong Wang , James Frank Caruba , John Thomas Pawlak
- Applicant Address: US PA Malvern
- Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Malvern
- Agent Peter Kendall
- Main IPC: G12B13/00
- IPC: G12B13/00 ; G01T1/164 ; G01T1/00 ; G01T7/00

Abstract:
A system and tuning method to collaboratively calibrate high voltage DAC values and Photomultiplier Tube DAC values of photomultiplier tubes of a gamma camera so that the detector produces a valid energy spectrum over the entire detector surface. A method for tuning a gamma camera having a plurality of photosensors, exposes the photosensors to scintillation photons corresponding to nuclear radiation of known energy; measures an energy output corresponding to each specific photosensor; calculates an average enemy output of all photosensors in the camera; collaboratively adjusts a DAC value corresponding to a voltage applied to a specific photosensor and a DACHV value corresponding to a high voltage applied to the camera based on the calculated average energy, energy output of each photosensor, and a target energy value corresponding to said known energy; and repeats the calibration until convergence is achieved between the average energy, energy output, and target energy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100148046A1 METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE TUNING OF GAMMA CAMERA Public/Granted day:2010-06-17
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