Patent ID: 11918390
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 11:
12. A method for positron emission tomography (PET), comprising:
acquiring emission data while performing an emission scan of a patient;
reconstructing real-time image frames during the emission scan using the emission data as the emission data is acquired;
determining a motion of the patient in the real-time image frames based on a per-voxel variation relative to a reference;
indicating patient motion in response to a number of voxels having a greater than threshold per-voxel variation exceeding a motion threshold; and
not using the emission data acquired while the number of voxels having the greater than threshold per-voxel variation exceeds the motion threshold during reconstruction of a final PET image of the patient after the emission scan.