Patent ID: 9121893
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: A61B,G01R,G01T

Abstract:
1. A combined positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus, comprising: an MR scanner including a magnet for generating a magnetic field for inducing NMR signals from nuclei of a subject to be imaged within a field of view of said MR scanner; and a PET detector module including a scintillator and a solid-state photodetector having a photodecting surface optically coupled to said scintillator, said PET detector module being retractably disposed within said magnetic field, both sais scintillator and said solid-state photodetector being disposed within said magnetic field with said photodetecting surface being fixed parallel to said magnetic field; wherein said solid-state photodetector is a silicon-based photodetector.