Radiant energy – Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling – With or including a luminophor
Patent
1995-05-11
1997-01-28
Glick, Edward J.
Radiant energy
Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling
With or including a luminophor
G01T 1161
Patent
active
055980031
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for collecting transmission information utilizing a large field of view of a detector and for collecting emission data using a small field of view window of the same detector. The system employs the large field of view of a scintillation detector in order to collect transmission data for the entire body being scanned. Such a technique improves the quantitative capability of emission data by acquiring non-truncated attenuation factors. The emission data of a small field of view window is collected so that high resolution image pixels are used for processing the emission data (e.g., of a particular body organ). Since a large field of view is used for collecting the transmission data, the imaging pixels for transmission data are of lower resolution than the emission data. The emission data can be collected using a roving zoom technique during an ECT scan. A computation adjusts the transmission data to account for the known location of the emission zoom window on the crystal and for the different pixel sizes between the full field of view transmission scan of the body and the smaller roving electronic field of view emission scan of the body organ.
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Brown J. Keenan
Janicki Michael J.
Jones Steven M.
Lang Thomas F.
Liebig John R.
ADAC Laboratories
Glick Edward J.
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