Radiant energy – Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling – With or including a luminophor
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-12
2005-04-12
Gabor, Otilia (Department: 2878)
Radiant energy
Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling
With or including a luminophor
C250S363030
Reexamination Certificate
active
06878941
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for producing attenuation corrected nuclear medicine images of patients, comprising:at least one gamma camera head that acquires nuclear image data suitable to produce a nuclear tomographic image at a first controllable rotation rate about an axis;at least one X-ray CT imager that acquires X-ray data suitable to produce an attenuation image for correction of the nuclear tomographic image at a second controllable rotation rate about the axis; anda controller that controls the data acquisition and first and second rotation rates to selectively provide at least one of the following modes of operation:(i) a movement gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each view of the X-ray acquisition is associated with one of a plurality of respiration gated time periods;(ii) a cardiac gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is substantially higher than the first rotation rate and the data from each view of the X-ray acquisition for different rotations is averaged, wherein the X-ray data is not correlated with the cardiac cycle; and(iii) a cardiac gated NM imaging mode in which the second rotation rate is higher than the first rotation rate and the X-ray data is binned in accordance with a same binning as the NM data.
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Balan Adi
Berlad Gideon
Hajaj Benny
Hefetz Yaron
Lonn Albert
Elgems Ltd.
Fenster & Company
Gabor Otilia
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