Invention Application
- Patent Title: TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE CREATION DEVICE, TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE CREATION METHOD, AND TOF-PET DEVICE
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Application No.: US18683279Application Date: 2022-08-18
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Publication No.: US20240366166A1Publication Date: 2024-11-07
- Inventor: Yuya ONISHI , Ryosuke OTA , Fumio HASHIMOTO , Kibo OTE
- Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
- Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
- Priority: JP2021-135572 20210823
- International Application: PCT/JP2022/031259 WO 20220818
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B6/03 ; A61B6/42 ; G01T1/20

Abstract:
A tomographic image creation apparatus includes a time difference calculation unit, a signal waveform processing unit, an error estimation unit, a γ-ray pair generation position calculation unit, and an image creation unit. The time difference calculation unit calculates, for each of γ-ray pair coincidence events, a time difference of a timing at which a value of each of a first signal and a second signal output from a signal waveform acquisition unit reaches a threshold value. The signal waveform processing unit relatively shifts a waveform of the first signal or a waveform of the second signal by the time difference in a direction approaching each other. The error estimation unit estimates an error of the time difference by a DNN based on the waveform of each of the first signal and the second signal after shifting.
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