PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["250", "370090"]

Abstract:
Detector systems for enhanced radiographic imaging incorporate one or more Compton and nuclear medicine imaging, PET imaging, and x-ray CT imaging capabilities. The detector designs employ one or more layers of detector modules comprising edge-on or face-on detectors, or a combination of edge-on and face-on detectors, which can employ gas, scintillator, semiconductor, low temperature (such as Ge and superconductor) or structured detectors. The detectors implement tracking capabilities, and operate in non-coincidence or coincidence detection modes.

Claim (Index 31):
An imaging apparatus comprising a radiation imaging system comprising an array of detector modules configured to image a region of interest within an object, including:\n a front-end detector layer comprising a first array of radiation detector modules configured to image a region of interest within an object; a back-end detector layer comprising a second array of radiation detector modules configured to image the region of interest within the object; detector electronics configured for tracking incident photon interactions in one or both of the arrays of detector modules using temporal and energy resolution techniques; and a communications link to a computer imaging system configured to image the region of interest within the object by processing readout data from the detector electronics, wherein the detector modules in one or both layers have temporal and spatial resolution adapted for tracking the incident photon interactions at different penetration depths within the respective array; wherein one or both of the front-end and back-end detector layers further have temporal and spatial resolution adapted for imaging the region of interest by tracking the interactions from at least one of an x-ray source and a gamma radiation source; and wherein one or both of the first and second arrays of detector modules includes at least one of an edge-on detector module, a structured detector module, and a 3D detector module; wherein the detector modules further comprise at least one of structured mold scintillator quantum dot or nanoparticle detector modules, structured mold semiconductor detector modules, or structured mold semiconductor quantum dot or nanoparticle detector modules, and at least one such structured mold detector module has a uniform or variable density defined by a number of holes and/or channels as a function of penetration depth of the incident photons within the respective array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 90.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14804838', '14804799', '13573981', '15701088', '15699458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7198059710501471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.551316924765058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7029570664216382
- Mean Citation Score: 358.314232
- Max Citation Score: 404.3228
- Similarity Product: 391.7007744381428

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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