Patent ID: 6915004
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for three dimensional image reconstruction from data acquired in a positron emission tomograph, said apparatus comprising: an acquisition processor in communication with a PET scanner, said acquisition processor for receiving a plurality of event information and a plurality of bed position information; a histogram processor in communication with said acquisition processor, said histogram processor for creating a histogram; a transmission and attenuation processor in communication with said histogram processor, said transmission and attenuation processor for receiving said histogram; a normalization processor in communication with said histogram processor, said normalization processor for normalizing a plurality of emission event information contained in said histogram; a Mu image processor in communication with said transmission and attenuation processor, said Mu image processor for reconstructing a transmission data image; an attenuation correction processor in communication with said transmission and attenuation processor and with said normalization processor; a rebinning processor in communication with said attenuation correction processor, said rebinning processor for converting a 3D file into a 2D file; an image reconstruction processor in communication with said rebinning processor; a scatter correction processor in communication with said Mu image processor and with an image display processor; and said image display processor in communication with said image reconstruction processor and with said scatter correction processor, said image display processor for producing an image file.