Patent ID: 11903749
Assignee: SPECTRUM DYNAMICS MEDICAL LIMITED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A nuclear medicine tomography system comprising:
a detector carrier;
a detector carrier housing including an inner space;
a heat pump configured to cool air within said inner space to a temperature below a room temperature of a room in which said nuclear medicine tomography system is located; and
a plurality of detector units, coupled to said detector carrier, each detector unit comprising:
a detector camera;
a cooling channel, which guides the air to the detector camera from said inner space; and
an exhaust channel, which guides the air from the detector camera to said inner space;

at least one sensor configured to generate a signal based on a temperature at one or more points within said nuclear medicine tomography system; and
a processor;
wherein said heat pump comprises at least one actuator;
wherein said processor comprises circuitry configured to send a control signal to said at least one actuator, said heat pump configured to maintain a temperature of said detector camera of at least one of said plurality of detector units below a threshold temperature.