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 29):
A method of operating a radiation imaging system having at least first and second layers of detector modules with at least one of different temporal, spatial and energy resolution adapted to image a region of interest within a body, the method comprising:\n utilizing detector electronics configured for detecting interactions from at least one radiation source in each of the at least first and second layers of detector modules; tracking the interactions in one or more of the at least first and second layers of detector modules; communicating readout data from the detector electronics to a computer imaging system; and imaging the region of interest with the computer imaging system, based on the tracking of the interactions from the at least one radiation source with the different resolution in each of the at least first and second layers of detector modules; wherein the different resolution of the at least first and second layers of detector modules is selected for tracking the interactions from both x-rays and gamma rays; operating the radiation imaging system as a PET camera and x-ray CT or tomosynthesis imaging system; and operating the first layer of detector modules as part of a front-end CT or tomosynthesis detector and operating the second layer of detector modules as part of a back-end PET detector.

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): 0.719985931992711
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5510080845754324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7030881472509832
- Mean Citation Score: 358.314232
- Max Citation Score: 404.3228
- Similarity Product: 386.6887979149818

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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