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8183532 Cardiac SPECT system with trajectory optimization  
In a disclosed imaging method, the instantaneous speed or data acquisition dwell times of a detector head (14, 16) is optimized as a function of position along a path (P) of the detector head...
8177429 Foldable nuclear medicine gantry  
In accordance with one aspect, imaging system (10, 190) includes a plurality of detector heads (12, 14, 80, 100, 202) and a frame (20) on which the plurality of detector heads are mounted. The...
8173966 Collimator storage apparatus integrated with patient support  
According to some embodiments, a patient support system for a nuclear medical imaging system is provided that includes: a patient support; a collimator storage unit located under the patient...
8108026 Device consisting of a combination of a magnetic resonance tomograph and a positron emission tomograph  
A sandwich structure which attenuates the PET radiation minimally, is used as a support tube for the transmit antenna. In at least one embodiment, it includes a thin strong inner wall, a likewise...
8071949 High-resolution single photon planar and spect imaging of brain and neck employing a system of two co-registered opposed gamma imaging heads  
A compact, mobile, dedicated SPECT brain imager that can be easily moved to the patient to provide in-situ imaging, especially when the patient cannot be moved to the Nuclear Medicine imaging...
8049176 Method and apparatus for real time imaging and monitoring of radiotherapy beams  
A method and apparatus for real time imaging and monitoring of radiation therapy beams is designed to preferentially distinguish and image low energy radiation from high energy secondary radiation...
8044361 Radiation detection unit and radiographic inspection apparatus  
Plural detection boards are stacked and fixed. The detection board has a wiring board, a semiconductor detection device fixed on an upper surface of the wiring board and configured to detect...
7927013 Computed tomography rotor, and gantry embodying same  
A rotor, and a gantry and a computed tomography apparatus with such a rotor, has recess to accommodate at least one component of an image data acquisition device, and the recess is dimensioned such...
7863574 Multimodality imaging system  
A system and method is provided for performing multimodal imaging of an object. The system and method includes performing spatio-temporal detection of transmission CT data of a fan X-ray beam,...
7847257 Tomographic sampling for SPECT with cone-beam or multifocal collimation  
An apparatus and method for nuclear medical imaging (e.g., SPECT imaging) using cone-beam or multifocal collimators is disclosed. According to the embodiment of the invention, the...
7825383 Mobile camera for organ targeted imaging  
A mobile detector system for use in the detection of radiation photons. The detector system includes an exterior casing, having an internal area. The internal area has an interior periphery and an...
7791030 Nuclear medical diagnostic device  
Parameters T1, T2, and K required by a scintillator array identification mechanism in a two-stage scintillator γ-ray detector (depth of interaction (DOI)) are accurately and easily determined. The ...
7777190 Drive system for scanning device and method of scanning a patient  
A scanning device and a drive system for a scanning device having a first detector and a second detector are provided, which include a base and a mounting plate movably supported by the base. The...
7759647 PET imaging system with APD-based PET detectors and three-dimensional positron-confining magnetic field  
PET detector modules are provided within a multi-dimensional magnetic field, to confine the range of emitted positrons from an object being imaged to improve spatial resolution of reconstructed PET...
7732775 Apparatus and method for radiation imaging  
The radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation source for irradiating an object, a radiation image detector having a radiation-receiving plane that receives radiation from the radiation...
7728298 Detector bar or detector formed from a number of detector bars, and computed-tomography unit with such a detector  
A detector bar, a detector formed from a number of detector bars, and a computed-tomography unit including such a detector is disclosed, each detector bar being formed from a number of individual...
7723689 Open limited orbiting tomographic imaging system  
A radiographic three dimensional imaging apparatus capable of focusing on a center of rotation point, includes at least two gamma ray detectors, each having a radiation input face, with each...
7652256 Solid state based PET retrofit for a CT scanner  
A solid state PET module for retrofitting to a standalone CT scanner generally includes a housing that is insertable into at least a portion of a bore opening of a gantry of the CT scanner. The...
7650021 Device and method for determining the concentration of a tracer in blood  
With the aid of an X-ray CT (5, 6), the spatial position (r) of a body cavity that is filled with blood is determined, which for example can be a part of the aorta or of the left ventricle of the...
7592597 Method and apparatus for imaging with imaging detectors having small fields of view  
An apparatus for imaging a structure of interest comprises a plurality of imaging detectors mounted on a gantry. Each of the plurality of imaging detectors has a field of view (FOV), is...
7525095 Method and apparatus for human brain imaging using a nuclear medicine camera  
In an imaging method, mark positions are defined for one or more detector heads (10, 12) at one or more marked angular orientations (θA, θB). The mark positions for at least one marked angular o...
7511277 Nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus, positron emission computed tomography apparatus, and detector units  
A nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus is provided that can improve time resolution and energy resolution and diagnosing accuracy by enhancing radiation detectors in terms of moisture-proofing and...
7491940 High energy radiation detector device  
In a device for capturing high energy radiation emitted from a radiation source within an examination object with a detector, the detector is arranged on a carriage mechanism that is mounted in a...
7470896 Non-circular-orbit detection method and apparatus  
A non-circular-orbit detection method and apparatus is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes: locating first and second detectors, displaced with respect to one another, a distance...
7468513 Fast dynamic imaging protocol using a multi-head single photon emission computed tomography system  
An imaging system for acquiring multi-dimensional tomographic image data of an object, the imaging system having (1) a plurality of detectors to acquire image data, the detectors coupled to a...
7465930 Wobbling mechanism to compensate FOV truncation in SPECT systems  
A nuclear imaging system and method are provided for synchronously recovering the field of view of a target to be imaged includes multiple detectors attached to a gantry, a support member or...
7456407 System for medical imaging and a patient support system for medical diagnosis  
A system for medical imaging and a patient support system for medical diagnosis are provided. The system includes a gantry mounted on the base. The gantry has an annular support. A detector head is...
7449696 System and apparatus for heat management  
A heat management apparatus for disposition in a medical imaging system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a thermally conductive detector module, sensor components disposed upon the detector...
7399973 System for medical diagnosis  
A system for medical diagnosis is provided. The system includes a gantry mounted on the base. The gantry has an annular support, which defines a cylindrical inner space. A detector head is fixed to...
7381961 Multi-small field-of-view detector head SPECT system that scans over 360Å  
A multiheaded camera which is formed with a number of heads on one support structure and a different support structure with other heads. At least one of the heads is movable, so that the patient...
7375337 Constant radius single photon emission tomography  
A nuclear camera (10) includes four or more gamma detectors (20, 20′, 20″, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206) arranged or, a generally circular rotatable gantry (12, 12′, 12″, 12′″) around an imaging ...
7374337 Releasably interconnected CT and SPECT scanners  
Arrangement for taking a CT scan and a SPECT scan of a patient in a single-pass diagnostic procedure. A SPECT scanner and a CT scanner are included. The SPECT scanner is mounted on a SPECT gantry...
7358499 Laser alignment system for nuclear medical detector  
An alignment system for use in connection with a patient handling system and a nuclear medicine gantry is provided. The alignment system includes a nuclear camera alignment fixture mountable to the...
7335888 Imaging apparatus to acquire tomography projections with improved orbit  
The present invention relates to an apparatus for nuclear medicine imaging in which the imaging platform is attached directly to the detectors for nuclear imaging to allow for minimal constant...
7312456 Stationary multi-pinhole cardio vascular SPECT system  
A dynamic Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) system utilizes an array of modular detectors structured in a dome shape and being independently tiltable in polar or azimuth angle. The...
7310407 Nuclear medical imaging device  
An apparatus for imaging a field of view, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises an x-ray source positioned adjacent to the field of view, a source mask located between the...
7297955 Semiconductor radiation detector, positron emission tomography apparatus, semiconductor radiation detection apparatus, detector unit and nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus  
Each semiconductor radiation detector used for a nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus (PET apparatus) is constructed with an anode electrode A facing a cathode electrode C sandwiching a CdTe...
7291840 Combined transmission/emission tomography apparatus  
A combined transmission/emission tomography apparatus for generation of tomographic slice images of an examination subject (preferably of a patient), has a supporting structure composed of a...
7279683 Distance measurement apparatus of gamma ray source using multilayered ray detector  
Rays incident upon a plurality of detection plates arranged along a normal direction are detected. A distance between the ray and the ray source is estimated based on the number of counted rays...
7262415 Gantry for geometrically configurable and non-configurable positron emission tomography detector arrays  
A gantry system for geometrically configuring a plurality of detectors for image scanning a patient comprises a plurality of essentially planar sensor support rings forming a barrel surrounding a...
7242002 Compact gamma camera  
A gamma camera system including a pair of gamma camera heads connected to form substantially a right angle. The pair of gamma camera heads are mounted on an arm. A rotation mechanism includes a...
7235788 Detector for a tomography unit  
A detector for a tomography unit, in particular an X-ray computer tomograph, includes a number of detector modules arranged next to one another in a z-direction and in a φ-direction running ...
7190991 Multi-mode internal imaging  
The invention described herein provides systems and methods for multi-modal imaging with light and a second form of imaging. Light imaging involves the capture of low intensity light from a...
7173249 Nuclear medical diagnostic apparatus and method for detecting radiation  
A method for detecting radiation emitted from a radiation source within a subject. A radiation detector is moved in approximately parallel with the direction of the body axis of the subject. The...
6940941 Breakable gantry apparatus for multidimensional x-ray based imaging  
An x-ray scanning imaging apparatus with a generally O-shaped gantry ring, which has a segment that fully or partially detaches (or “breaks”) from the ring to provide an opening through which the...
6912302 MR imaging method, 3D imaging method and MRI system  
With the objective of suppressing the adverse effect of residual magnetization caused by encode ordering, twelve encode points are defined as a first segment in order of decreasing distances from a...
6831961 Combined tomography scanners  
A multi-scanner frame in accordance with the principles of the present invention includes a base and a plurality of stands. Each stand supports a tomography gantry. The plurality of scanners...
RE38560 Adjustable dual-detector image data acquisition system  
An improved image acquisition system allows the angular displacement between two detectors to be adjusted between 90° and 180° to reduce the imaging time for both 360° and 180° scans. A patient tab...
6762411 Reconfigure lock for dual detector gamma camera  
The present invention discloses a reconfigure lock for dual detector gamma camera that works with a triple race bearing. The outer race is stationary, it serves as part of the supporting frame. A...
6617582 Scintillation camera having multiple fields of view  
A scintillation camera using the dual scintillation detector head is disclosed. The scintillation camera can include two dual scintillation detector heads, which are fixed in opposition to each...
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