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Electro-conductive pet phantom for MR/PET quality control measurement

US7965080B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. · US

Inventors

Johannes Breuer · Dortmund, DE
A. Andrew Carey · Lenoir City, US
Xinli Liu · Changchun, CN
Volker Matschl · Bamberg, DE
Rainer Paul · Kapsweyer, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 15, 2009
Grant date	Jun 21, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 26, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/481
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A phantom for use in quality control measurement of a fully integrated magnetic resonance/PET scanner is disclosed. The phantom features radiation activity distributed throughout an electrically conductive binder. Suitably, the binder is elastomeric and includes carbon fibers distributed throughout it to set the conductivity of the phantom to a desired level. The phantom is applicable to various multimodality integrated medical imaging systems such as MR/SPECT and MR/CT in addition to MR/PET.

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