Radiant energy – Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling – With or including a luminophor
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-01
2011-03-01
Porta, David P (Department: 2884)
Radiant energy
Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling
With or including a luminophor
C250S363030, C382S131000, C378S021000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07897926
ABSTRACT:
In a time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) imaging method, three-dimensional time-of-flight line-of-response (TOF-LOR) data are acquired. Each TOF-LOR corresponds to a line-of-response with time-of-flight spatial localization. The TOF-LOR data are slice-binned into a plurality of two-dimensional TOF-LOR data sets based on the time-of-flight spatial localization. At least some of the slice-binned TOF-LOR data correspond to lines of response that are oblique to the two-dimensional data sets. The TOF-LOR data are coarsely angularly rebinned to a plurality of coarse angular bins each having an angular span of at least about 10°. The coarsely angularly binned TOF-LOR data are reconstructed to produce the image slice.
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Green Yara B
Koninklijke Philips Electronics , N.V.
Porta David P
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