PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "362000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to devices, systems and methods for determining a position of a photon gamma interaction in a PET detector. The PET detector may include a crystal array and a single-end read-out structure. The single-end read-out structure may include a photon-sensor array optically coupled with the crystal array. The crystal array may include a plurality of crystal elements arranged along a first direction and a second direction. The crystal elements may form a plurality of crystal groups along the first direction. The PET detector may further include a plurality of optical separators of the same or different lengths configured to control light transmission in the PET detector. The position of the photon gamma interaction in a crystal group may be determined based on output information of the photon-sensor array optically coupled with the crystal group.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the PET detector including a plurality of crystal groups, the method further comprising:\n determining, based on the output information, a plurality of candidate positions of the photon gamma interaction in the plurality of crystal groups, each of the plurality of candidate positions corresponding to one of the plurality of crystal groups and including a candidate depth of the photon gamma interaction within the corresponding crystal group; determining, based on the output information, that an inter crystal scatter (ICS) occurs within the plurality of crystal groups; and designating, among the plurality of candidate positions, the candidate position with the smallest candidate depth as a position of the photon gamma interaction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15454756', '14822892', '15518577', '12608509', '13360913']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6798969469502033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911926607423932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6610265183294223
- Mean Citation Score: 219.315188
- Max Citation Score: 228.28468
- Similarity Product: 175.0632760295796

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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