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Time of flight measurements in positron emission tomography

US8164063B2 · kind B2 · utility

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18Claims

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Assignee

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV · NL

Inventors

Thomas Frach · Aachen, DE
Torsten Solf · Aachen, DE
Andreas Thon · Aachen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 18, 2007
Grant date	Apr 24, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 21, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/481
WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A positron emission tomography apparatus (100) includes a plurality of radiation sensitive detector systems (106) and selective trigger systems (120). The selective trigger systems identify detector signals resulting from detected gamma radiation (310) while disregarding spurious detector signals (310). In one implementation, the apparatus (100) includes a time to digital converter which decomposes a measurement time interval (Tmax) according to a binary hierarchical decomposition of level H, where H is an integer greater than equal to one.

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