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8183533 Edge-on SAR scintillator devices and systems for enhanced SPECT, PET, and compton gamma cameras  
The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting radiation including x-ray, gamma ray, and particle radiation for nuclear medicine, radiographic imaging, material composition analysis,...
8183531 System and method for tomography combining single and paired photons  
Methods and systems for producing an image. Measurement data is obtained for a coincidence photon event, and a line projector function is generated based on the obtained measurement data....
8173266 Thermal barrier coating with thermoluminescent indicator material embedded therein  
A coating material (20) for coating a machine component (10), especially a gas turbine or a part thereof, comprises a mixture of at least a refractory material and an indicator material having an...
8164062 Scintillator operation and control  
A method for reducing scintillator afterglow. Methods for reducing afterglow include conditioning a scintillator by exposing it to high flux densities of ionizing radiation. One technique includes...
8164064 Localization of a radioactive source within a body of a subject  
A computerized system for locating a device including a sensor module and a processor. A radioactive source, associated with the device, produces a signal in the form of radioactive...
8153983 Gadolinium halide scintillators  
The present invention concerns scintillator compositions comprising gadolinium halide and a dopant. The gadolinium halide and dopant material (e.g., GdI3:Ce) has surprisingly good characteristics...
8138481 Determination of a spatial gain distribution of a scintillator  
A method for providing information about a spatial gain distribution of a scintillator for a primary radiation is provided which does not require the irradiation of the scintillator with the...
8134129 Microchannel plate, gas proportional counter and imaging device  
An object of the present invention is to provide a microchannel plate having excellent characteristics which enable to attain both high luminance and high resolution at the same time, a gas...
8115175 Edge-on SAR scintillator devices and systems for enhanced SPECT, PET, and Compton gamma cameras  
The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting radiation including x-ray, gamma ray, and particle radiation for nuclear medicine, radiographic imaging, material composition analysis,...
8115174 Edge-on SAR scintillator devices and systems for enhanced SPECT, PET, and compton gamma cameras  
The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting radiation including x-ray, gamma ray, and particle radiation for nuclear medicine, radiographic imaging, material composition analysis,...
8110805 Iterative algorithms for crystal efficiencies estimations from TOF compressed normalization data  
Time-of-flight (TOF) clinical data collected during a PET scan are very sparse and have significant size. These data undergo TOF axial rebinning and azimuthal mashing if histogrammed data-based...
8089047 Metal-organic scintillator crystals for X-ray, gamma ray, and neutron detection  
New metal-organic materials are useful as scintillators and have the chemical formula LX3(CH3OH)4 where L is Y, Sc, or a lanthanide element, and X is a halogen element. An example of the...
8089048 Discrimination-enhanced fiber-optic scintillator radiation detector  
A fiber-optic scintillator radiation detector includes a multitude of optical fibers that each include an optical core. The optical cores are spaced apart from one another by an interposer...
8084741 Configurable coincidence pairing and filtering system and method for positron emission tomography  
A method of processing positron emission tomography (PET) information obtained from a PET detector having a plurality of detector regions, each detector region having at least one detector module...
8080799 Method for positron emission tomography and PET scanner  
Disclosed is a method for positron emission tomography and to a PET scanner. The positron emission tomography method employs the following steps: a) two photons are emitted in opposite directions...
8076644 Methods and systems for determining a medical system alignment  
Methods and systems for performing a patient scan using a three-dimensional (3D) cylindrical Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging system are provided. The method includes acquiring a...
8071948 Aircraft having an integrated radiation detection system and method therefor  
A radiation detection aircraft has at least one component member of the aircraft having scintillator material. A signal converter is coupled to the at least one component member. An accumulator is...
8049175 Scintillator operation and control  
A method and system for reducing scintillator afterglow. Methods for reducing afterglow include conditioning a scintillator by exposing it to high flux densities of ionizing radiation. One...
8017915 Method and apparatus for emission guided radiation therapy  
An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron emission detectors configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordinate system, and a...
8008625 Method and apparatus for high-sensitivity single-photon emission computed tomography  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for high-sensitivity Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The apparatus includes a two-dimensional (2D)...
8003948 Data acquisition for positron emission tomography  
A method for estimating the start time of an electronic pulse generated in response to a detected event, for example the start time for pulses received in response to photon detection in positron...
7964848 Skin contamination dosimeter  
A technique and device provides absolute skin dosimetry in real time at multiple tissue depths simultaneously. The device uses a phoswich detector which has multiple scintillators embedded at...
7932498 Method for generation of SPECT trajectory data from CT data  
A method for optimizing the scanning trajectory of a radiation detector device, e.g., a SPECT scanning device, about an object generally includes: obtaining object image data using a different...
7928397 Gamma camera including a scintillator and an image intensifier  
A gamma-ray or X-ray detection device including a scintillator configured to convert gamma rays or X-rays into optical radiation, an optical image intensifier configured to intensify the optical...
7928396 Method for obtaining a scintillation structure  
A method for obtaining a scintillation body comprising the steps of readying a matrix of binding material within which is present a plurality of scintillation crystals, obtaining a plurality of...
7919762 Determining diffusion length of minority carriers using luminescence  
Methods (200, 300), apparatuses and systems (100) for determining minority carrier diffusion lengths in a semi-conductor structure (130), which may be a solar cell or a unprocessed or partially...
7902510 Radionuclide detection devices and associated methods  
Radionuclide detection devices comprise a fluid cell comprising a flow channel for a fluid stream. A radionuclide collector is positioned within the flow channel and configured to concentrate one...
7894652 Prompt gamma correction for non-standard isotopes in a PET scanner  
A method for correcting PET emission data for prompt gamma emission background components present in non-pure positron-emitting isotopes uses a two component fit of modeled scatter and modeled...
7858924 Device for use in normalizing readings on a testing machine  
An optic module verification device for normalizing between X photon counters, including a verification tray with X verification wells and a modular photon emitter in each verification well. Each...
7807973 Pileup rejection in an energy-dispersive radiation spectrometry system  
A method of detecting a pileup in an energy-dispersive radiation spectrometry system, wherein a filter of the system generates a first pulse in response to a preamplifier signal, and wherein the...
7807974 Nuclear medical diagnosis apparatus  
A nuclear medical diagnosis apparatus capable of attaining improvement of the sensitivity by the reduction of a count loss of the data is provided. A data sort section inside a data acquisition...
7791028 Apparatus and method for system identification  
Methods and apparatus for system identification operate by computing phase and amplitude using linear filters. By digitally processing the linearly filtered signals or data, the phase and amplitude...
7777191 Method and system of adaptive exposure for a camera  
A method and/or device of adaptively controlling an exposure duration for a camera. A determination is made as to whether motion is present. If it is determined that motion is present, exposure...
7750304 Concurrent reconstruction using multiple bed frames or continuous bed motion  
In an imaging system (10), a short axial length 4D sinograms are loaded one at a time from a data memory (40). A portion of an image memory (44) that corresponds to a currently reconstructed...
7745788 Optical trapping with a semiconductor  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming an optical trap with light directed through or above a semiconductor material. A preferred embodiment selected light-trapping wavelengths that have...
7732762 Method of inspecting a specimen surface, apparatus and use of fluorescent material  
The invention relates to a method of inspecting a specimen surface. The method comprises the steps of generating a plurality of primary beams directed towards the specimen surface, focussing the...
7655157 Doped cadmium tungstate scintillator with improved radiation hardness  
This invention provides novel cadmium tungstate scintillator materials that show improved radiation hardness. In particular, it was discovered that doping of cadmium tungstate (CdWO4) with...
7649175 Analog to digital conversion shift error correction  
A method for correcting energy values of pulses from a nuclear medicine camera for errors due to Analog to Digital conversion shift includes determining a relationship between a subset of samples...
7619222 Automatic radioactivity analyzer of mixed liquid beta emitter  
The present invention relates to an automatic radioactivity analyzer of mixed liquid beta emitter which comprises: a sample preparation part (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) for extracting a liquid sample...
7612342 Very bright scintillators  
The present application discloses methods and devices for increasing the light output of a scintillator. Using the methods of the present disclosure, a very high intensity electric field is applied...
7605372 Method for authentication by chemical marking or tracing of an object or a substance  
The invention concerns a method for authenticating different objects or substances to be identified comprising at least two phases: during an initial phase, selecting a plurality of chemical...
7592596 Methods and systems for medical imaging  
Methods and systems for a medical imaging system are provided. The medical imaging system includes an input circuit configured to receive a voltage level signal indicative of a stream of pulses, a...
7547887 Gamma ray spectrometers  
A gamma ray detector (50) comprises a plastic scintillation body (52) arranged to receive incident gamma rays to be detected. Photons are generated in response to the gamma rays by excitation and...
7541595 Electromagnetic radiation detecting apparatus, radiation detecting apparatus, radiation detecting system and laser processing method  
As to an electromagnetic radiation detecting apparatus, a radiation detecting apparatus, a radiation detecting system and a laser processing method, a TFT is disposed on an insulating substrate. A...
7507582 Method and device for multicolour 2-photon fluorescence coincidence analysis  
A method of fluorescence measurement on analytes, marked with different fluorescent markers, which have spectrally different fluorescence emissions, in a sample is described, having the following...
7504634 Lu1-xI3:Cex—A Scintillator for gamma ray spectroscopy and time-of-flight PET  
The present invention concerns very fast scintillator materials comprising lutetium iodide doped with Cerium Lu1-xI3:Cex; LuI3:Ce). The LuI3 scintillator material has surprisingly good...
7462837 Nuclide identifier system  
In a preferred embodiment, a method of identifying nuclides, including the steps of: determining spectral continuum via a peak erosion process to render a residual peak spectrum; filtering a...
7439515 Pipeline processing of pulse pile-up correction in a nuclear medicine imaging system  
Correction of scintillation event data from a nuclear medicine imaging system for effects of pulse pile-up is carried out by separating event data packets into total energy and individual detector...
7414245 Scintillator-based micro-radiographic imaging device  
A scintillation based imaging system. The device utilizes a single-crystal inorganic scintillator to convert ionizing radiation to light in a spectral range or ranges within the visible or...
7397034 Method of enhancing performance of doped scintillation crystals  
A method for enhancing the light yield of a doped scintillation crystal may include a reducing step if the crystal includes a dopant, such as cerium in a first oxidation state, such as the 4+...
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