Patent Document ID: 8515148
Application ID: 12991719
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A diagnostic imaging apparatus, comprising: a detector array including individual detectors for receiving radiation events from an imaging region; a triggering processor for assigning a time stamp to received potential events; an event verification processor that applies verification criteria to detector channel hits, wherein each verified radiation event is identified by a corresponding line of response; an event transformation processor that: transforms received events and corresponding lines of response into spatially displaced transformed events, transforms the line of response as received into a transformed line of response, identifies closest detector elements that are closest to endpoints of the transformed line of response, identifies neighboring detector elements to the closest detector elements, and creates a plurality of candidate lines of response that connect the closest detectors and the neighboring detectors; a list mode event storage buffer for storing valid time stamped events; and a reconstruction processor for reconstructing valid events into an image representation of the imaging region; wherein the triggering processor generates time-of-flight information corresponding to each line of response, the event transformation processor transforming an event location derived from the time-of-flight information to create a transformed event location along the transformed line of response.