Patent ID: 7863573

Claim:
A positron emission tomography imaging system, comprising: a detector configured to detect radiation emitted from an object to be examined; a data processing apparatus configured to reconstruct image data for positron emission tomography diagnosis from detection data obtained from the detector; and a user terminal configured to obtain desired information by operating the detector and the data processing apparatus, wherein the detector includes a detection part having a plurality of detection elements configured to detect the radiation emitted from the object to be examined for every designated timing, and an event information file generation part configured to generate an event information file based on the detection data obtained from the detector, and wherein the data processing apparatus includes a coincidence information generation part configured to generate coincidence information based on the event information file, and an image reconstruction part configured to reconstruct the image data based on the coincidence information obtained by the coincidence information generation part and an image reconstruction algorithm selected at the user terminal from a plurality of image reconstruction algorithms stored in advance.