Compact conscious animal positron emission tomography scanner
US7126126B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 16, 2003 |
| Grant date | Oct 24, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 30, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R33/481
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of serially transferring annihilation information in a compact positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes generating a time signal for an event, generating an address signal representing a detecting channel, generating a detector channel signal including the time and address signals, and generating a composite signal including the channel signal and similarly generated signals. The composite signal includes events from detectors in a block and is serially output. An apparatus that serially transfers annihilation information from a block includes time signal generators for detectors in a block and an address and channel signal generator. The PET scanner includes a ring tomograph that mounts onto a portion of an animal, which includes opposing block pairs. Each of the blocks in a block pair includes a scintillator layer, detection array, front-end array, and a serial encoder. The serial encoder includes time signal generators and an address signal and channel signal generator.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.