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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115172 | Position-weighted location of scintillation events Determining a scintillation event location bevent along an axis B of an array of photomultiplier tubes, each photomultiplier tube having a location bPMT and an output ZPMT. Determining a preliminary event location bprelim ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115171 | Gamma camera for performing nuclear mammography imaging A gamma camera for use in a molecular imaging system includes a housing, a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) camera disposed within the housing, and at least one retractable wall coupled to the housing and adapted to secure an anatomy of interest in a field-of-view of th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8080800 | Method and apparatus for image reconstruction for a synthetic aperture gamma ray imager An imaging system includes a platform having mounted thereon an imaging device. The imaging device includes a first detector and a second detector. The imaging system includes a mask having a first pattern of apertures therein, the mask positioned on a first side of... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8063376 | Large bore PET and hybrid PET/CT scanners and radiation therapy planning using same An imaging system comprises: a ring of positron emission tomography (PET) detectors; a PET housing at least partially surrounding the ring of PET detectors and defining a patient aperture of at least 80 cm; a coincidence detection processor or circuitry configured t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7919756 | Gamma image detection device The invention provides a detection device and a method of making a gamma detection image. The detection device comprises a gamma camera and an additional camera, that can make an image of the object outside the gamma detection space. Through correlating the p... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7915590 | Method and apparatus for radiation imaging This invention relates to a method and an apparatus, primarily a radiation imaging apparatus and an array of coded aperture masks, for use in diagnostic nuclear medicine. The coded aperture masks are fitted with radiation attenuation tubes, each of which extends fro... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7825382 | Remote triggered X-ray image capture device with gamma ray detector Systems and methods are presented herein for generating an X-ray image where the X-ray image generator has no electrical connection with an X-ray source that generates the X-rays. In an exemplary embodiment a gamma detector is positioned behind an x-ray permeable mi... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7723688 | Methods and systems for automatic body-contouring imaging Methods and systems for imaging a subject using an imaging system are provided. The method includes rotating a first detector and a second detector about a subject and determining a distance of the first detector and the second detector from the subject. The method ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7696481 | Multi-layered detector system for high resolution computed tomography X-ray detector system 18 with improved spatial resolution for a computed tomography systems is provided. Detector system 18 may include pairs of first and second detector arrays 50 and 52, with each array containing detector elements of a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7550728 | Diagnosis device and diagnosis method for radiographic and nuclear medical examinations The invention relates to a diagnosis device for combined or combinable radiographic and nuclear medical examinations with: an x-ray source, an examination room for accommodating a patient, a gamma radiation source arranged in the body of a patient, a detector system... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7531807 | Methods and systems for automatic body-contouring imaging Methods and systems for imaging a patient using an imaging system is provided. The method includes rotating a detector about a patient, detecting a predetermined distance of the detector from the patient, and automatically moving the detector to within a predetermin... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7439515 | Pipeline processing of pulse pile-up correction in a nuclear medicine imaging system Correction of scintillation event data from a nuclear medicine imaging system for effects of pulse pile-up is carried out by separating event data packets into total energy and individual detector energy data packets, executing pile-up correction algorithms on each ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7402806 | Computed radiography scanning system and method A system for obtaining data from an imaging plate is provided. The system includes a light source configured to generate a light beam and a controller operably connected to the light source and configured to scan the light beam across an object in a first direction.... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391026 | Preparation of a selection of control variables for a dose distribution to be adjusted in a technical appliance The invention relates to a planning tool for the interactive selection of control variables (x1, y7, α1, α2, α3, I1, I2) of a radiation therapy plan from a database (1) comprising... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7381961 | Multi-small field-of-view detector head SPECT system that scans over 360Å A multiheaded camera which is formed with a number of heads on one support structure and a different support structure with other heads. At least one of the heads is movable, so that the patient can obtain ingress and egress to the area. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378660 | Computer program, method, and system for hybrid CT attenuation correction Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer program, method, and system to facilitate hybrid CT attenuation correction. In one embodiment, the method generally includes acquiring data from a scanner, utilizing an ordered subset expectation maximization-b... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7374337 | Releasably interconnected CT and SPECT scanners Arrangement for taking a CT scan and a SPECT scan of a patient in a single-pass diagnostic procedure. A SPECT scanner and a CT scanner are included. The SPECT scanner is mounted on a SPECT gantry and the CT scanner is mounted on a CT gantry. The SPECT and CT gantrie... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368721 | Imaging devices and methods employing masks with a non-uniform grid of pinhole apertures In some preferred embodiments, an apparatus is provided that facilitates correction, such as, e.g., linearity correction, in imaging devices, such as, e.g., scintillation cameras. In preferred embodiments, a mask is implemented that can produce images for locating t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368722 | Method and apparatus for detecting ionizing radiation A method for detecting ionizing radiation with the aid of a scintillation counter and a photomultiplier using an inorganic solid-matter scintillator that incorporates at least one decay time component greater than 100 ns and measures the photons emitted by the scint... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365335 | Positron emission tomography time-of-flight list mode reconstruction with detector response function A PET system includes an improved image reconstruction algorithm based on an improved modeling of the point-spread function. PET time of flight data is used to obtain a mean emitting point and a time of flight probability function. This information is then used to m... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358499 | Laser alignment system for nuclear medical detector An alignment system for use in connection with a patient handling system and a nuclear medicine gantry is provided. The alignment system includes a nuclear camera alignment fixture mountable to the nuclear detector. The nuclear camera alignment fixture includes a pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356115 | Radiation scanning units including a movable platform A scanning unit for inspecting objects comprises in one embodiment a radiation source to emit a beam of radiation, a rotatable platform to support an object for inspection by the beam of radiation and a detector positioned to receive radiation after interaction of t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352840 | Micro CT scanners incorporating internal gain charge-coupled devices The present invention provides internal gain charge coupled devices (CCD) and CT scanners that incorporate an internal gain CCD. A combined positron emission tomography and CT scanner is also provided. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352844 | Method and system for automatically scanning and imaging the contents of a moving target The system and method described herein facilitate back-to-back automatic scanning of moving vehicles without have the vehicles stop in the scanning zone. The system includes a scanning zone that comprises a radiation source and a radiation source detector. The syste... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348564 | Multi modality imaging methods and apparatus A method for correcting emission data from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or SPECT includes generating a plurality of computed tomography (CT) image data, selecting a portion of the CT image data, processing the selected CT data to generate a plurality of attenu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342232 | Device and method for digitizing pet radiation events A device and method used in the high resolution Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems for digitizing radiation events for a scintillation camera and a data acquisition system. The device comprises a scintillation digitizer, including a plurality of comparators ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339172 | Portable compton gamma-ray detection system A Compton scattered gamma-ray detector system. The system comprises a gamma-ray spectrometer and an annular array of individual scintillators. The scintillators are positioned so that they are arrayed around the gamma-ray spectrometer. The annular array of individua... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324624 | Shifted transmission mock for nuclear medical imaging Emission contamination data are collected in a shifted mock scan simultaneous with the collection of transmission data during a transmission scan of a patient with a collimated gamma point source, the transmission data are corrected with the emission contamination d... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323688 | Nuclear imaging system using rotating scintillation bar detectors with slat collimation and method for imaging using the same A gamma camera having a scintillation detector formed of multiple rotating bar detector modules arranged in a ring configuration, with synchronized spin motion of each module. Such a camera can be used for both PET (coincidence) and single photon imaging application... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7298876 | Method and apparatus for quality assurance and quality control in radiological equipment using automatic analysis tools A method and apparatus for providing testing a computer aided diagnosis (CAD)-based system comprising receiving radiological image of a patient acquired using at least one piece of radiological equipment at least partially controlled by a technologist, the patient b... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295691 | Computer aided diagnosis of an image set A method, system, and storage medium for computer aided processing of an image set includes employing a data source, the data source including an image set acquired from X-ray projection imaging, x-ray computed tomography, or x-ray tomosynthesis, defining a region o... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7279685 | Radiation detector The invention is a digital radiation detector utilizing the stable timing functions of a microcontroller or plurality of microcontrolling devices to perform three independent functions. A first timer generates a continuous square wave output that is fed through a cl... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276704 | Photomultiplier tube, photomultiplier tube unit, and radiation detector A photomultiplier tube, a photomultiplier tube unit, and a performance-improved radiation detector for increasing a fixing area of a side tube in a faceplate while increasing an effective sensitive area of the faceplate. In the photomultiplier tube, a side face (... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274023 | Gamma-radiation detector module for portal applications The gamma-radiation module includes a housing having a box-like container and a cover for hermetically sealing a pair of cylinders within the housing. Each cylinder includes scintillation material and a photomultiplier tube on a common cylindrical axis. The hermetic... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265352 | Real-time list mode reconstruction In positron emission tomography, a nuclear medicine scanner is utilized to detect γ-ray events resulting from positron annihilation events. Molecules with known behaviors are tagged with radioactive isotopes which decay into γ-ray pairs which are detected coincide... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266421 | System for controlling lifting and remote handling units located in a confined enclosure The control system is used to control manipulation equipment (41) and carrying equipment (43) confined in a containment (40) inaccessible to operators and to perform maintenance operations related to electronic circuits for onboard equipment enc... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263168 | X-ray imaging apparatus, collision detecting device, and damper A collision detecting device includes a damper which is a hollow member with a fluid sealed into the interior thereof, and is formed, on its side abutted against an object to which it is to be mounted, in a concave shape conforming to the shape of a corner of the ob... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254438 | Multimodality medical imaging system and method with intervening patient access area The invention comprises a system and method for creating medical images of a subject patient using a plurality of imaging devices, such as tomographic imaging scanners. The system comprises a plurality of imaging devices, each having a bore through which a patient i... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250607 | Collimator A collimator suitable for the collimation of high energy gamma photons. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251523 | Tomogram creating device and radiation examining apparatus An X-ray CT examination using a radiation examining apparatus corresponding to an X-ray CT is effected on an unbreathed examinee. A tomogram creating apparatus creates a first tomogram, based on an X-ray detect signal outputted from a corresponding radiation detecto... | 07/31/2007 |
