VIRTUAL PET DETECTOR AND QUASI-PIXELATED READOUT SCHEME FOR PET

• Main Authors: THON, ANDREAS, FRACH, THOMAS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 27.11.2008

When designing detector arrays for diagnostic imaging devices, such as PET or SPECT devices, a virtual detector, or pixel, combines scintillator crystals (10, 20, 40) with photodetectors (12) in ratios that deviate from the conventional 1 : 1 ratio. For instance, multiple photodetectors can be glued...