发明授权
- 专利标题: Gamma camera system having multi-resolution detectors
- 专利标题(中): 伽玛相机系统具有多分辨率检测器
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申请号: US09064458申请日: 1998-04-22
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公开(公告)号: US06177675B1公开(公告)日: 2001-01-23
- 发明人: Daniel Gagnon , Stephen D. Miller , William G. Hawkins
- 申请人: Daniel Gagnon , Stephen D. Miller , William G. Hawkins
- 主分类号: G01T1166
- IPC分类号: G01T1166
摘要:
A gamma camera system includes a rotatable gantry supporting multiple detector heads each capable of receiving radiation from a region of interest of a subject disposed in an examination region. Each of the detector heads include a collimator which substantially defines the resolution and sensitivity of the respective detector head. At least two of the detector heads include collimators providing different resolution. Preferably, one of the collimators provides a detector head with substantially high resolution and another provides a detector head with substantially high sensitivity. An operator selectively combines image data detected by each of the multiple detector heads. If desired, the operator combine the image data from the multiple detector heads in a variety of manners to obtain images of various resolution and sensitivity from a single imaging procedure. The operator may also selectively weight the contribution that the image data from each of the detector heads has in the overall image. As yet another option, the operator may choose to combine only a high energy portion of the image data so as to minimize the amount of scatter events which are included in a final image.
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