摘要:
Methods and systems for imaging a patient are provided. The method includes determining a location of a volume of interest within the patient and acquiring a plurality of frames of emission data, at least one frame including the volume of interest. The method further includes determining a time-of-flight (TOF) information of at least a portion of the annihilations detected along a line of response between corresponding coincidence detectors and generating an image of the patient from the emission data using the determined TOF information.
摘要:
A method of quantitative positron emission analysis includes accounting for the loss of positron-electron annihilation events and quantitative inaccuracies in positron emission assays.
摘要:
A method of estimating an asymmetrical scatter signal distribution wherein asymmetry is introduced by angular incidence of radiation, which has been emitted from a source and transmitted through an object to be imaged, on a detector, is disclosed. This method includes, in an embodiment, modifying scatter that would be derived wherein the radiation is directly incident on the detector with zero degrees of inclination, using an asymmetry factor which indicates the shape and magnitude of the scatter signal distribution and which varies with an angle at which the radiation is incident on the detector, a mean attenuation coefficient of the object, and a distance the radiation has traveled through the object. The estimated scatter provides for correction of scatter in a image.