DATA-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION OF EVENT ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION LOGIC

• Main Authors: WIENER, Jason, Stephen, SOWARDS-EMMERD, David, HANSIS, Eberhard, Sebastian, PREVRHAL, Sven, BREDNO, Joerg, SHAO, Lingxiong
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.04.2019
• Subjects: MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION; MEASURING; PHYSICS; TESTING

In Positron Emission Tomography, a time window (260) and an energy window (225) are dynamically adjusted, based on an attenuation map, count rate, clinical application, discrimination tailoring, and/or offline discrimination tailoring. Detected radiation events are filtered using the dynamically adj...