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Patent US7838838 - Imaging techniques for reducing blind spots - Google Patents
An imaging system is provided for radioimaging a region of interest (ROI) of a subject. The system includes a housing, a support structure, which is movably coupled to the housing, and at least one motor assembly, coupled to the housing and the support structure, and configured to move the support structure...http://www.google.com/patents/US7838838?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7838838 - Imaging techniques for reducing blind spots
Publication number US7838838 B2
Application number US 12/561,751
Also published as US7601966, US20080001090, US20100001200
Publication number 12561751, 561751, US 7838838 B2, US 7838838B2, US-B2-7838838, US7838838 B2, US7838838B2
Inventors Benny Rousso, Shlomo Ben-Haim, Haim Melman, Michael Nagler, Yoel Zilberstien, Sajed Haj-Yahya
Patent Citations (32), Non-Patent Citations (66), Referenced by (2), Classifications (4), Legal Events (5)
US 7838838 B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, camera 22 comprises a plurality of detector assemblies 30, each of which comprises a detector 32 coupled to an angular orientator 34. Each of the detectors comprises a plurality of gamma ray sensors, such as a pixelated array of crystals, e.g., CZT crystals, and at least one collimator. For example, the array may comprise 16×64 pixels, arranged in sub-arrays of 16×16 pixels. Detector assemblies 30 are arranged at least partially around a region of interest (ROI) of subject 36.
For some applications in which each of the detectors comprises a plurality of gamma ray sensors, such as a pixelated array of crystals, e.g., CZT crystals, each of the detectors comprises a square array of pixels, e.g., a 16×16 array, as shown in FIG. 7A. For these applications, assembly 100 may comprise, for example, two detectors 114A and two detectors 114B. Alternatively, for some applications, each of the arrays comprises a rectangular array of pixels, for example, an array having a longitudinal length L that is equal to twice a width W of the array, e.g., a 32×16 array, as shown in FIG. 7B. Further alternatively, the ratio of the length L to the width W is greater than 2:1, such as 4.1, e.g., a 64×16 array (configuration not shown).
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U.S. Classification 250/394
Cooperative Classification G01T1/1648
European Classification G01T1/164B9
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