PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "362000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for improvement of spatial resolution in molecular and radiological imaging is presented. System equipment includes bed with either flat or cylindrical detectors large detector arrays with collimator(s), lens(s), mirror(s) and/or shutter(s). This system utilizes magnification principles with large detector arrays. There is error reduction by reduction of non-collinearity error as seen in current PET scans by determination of the trajectory of the photons and accurate localization of the annihilation event of a positron. Additional error reduction of random coincidence and scatter coincidence is seen. Overall, this method and apparatus affords improved spatial resolution and higher efficiencies, which would allow for lower cost and dose reduction to the patient.

Claim (Index 8):
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable code thereon for providing imaging, the medium including instructions in which a computer system performs operations comprising:\n detecting a pair of photons and utilizing collimation to determine a trajectory of at least one of said pair of photons hitting a detector; plotting a path of an incoming photon for a first detector; plotting a path of incoming photon for a second detector; assessing an angle between said paths of said photons and a position of intersection of said paths; determining whether said photons are a true coincidence, a random coincidence or a scatter coincidence; and plotting said true coincidence into a PET data set.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65432
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14644489', '11558900', '15620321', '10276221', '13573981']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7252823213891273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5494032059964756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7076944098498622
- Mean Citation Score: 296.52455
- Max Citation Score: 419.5006
- Similarity Product: 367.5674094046116

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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