Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Nuclear medical diagnosis apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 核医学诊断仪器
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Application No.: US13107282Application Date: 2011-05-13
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Publication No.: US08148695B2Publication Date: 2012-04-03
- Inventor: Isao Takahashi , Takafumi Ishitsu , Yuichiro Ueno , Tomoyuki Seino
- Applicant: Isao Takahashi , Takafumi Ishitsu , Yuichiro Ueno , Tomoyuki Seino
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2006-269559 20060929; JP2007-238660 20070914
- Main IPC: G01T1/164
- IPC: G01T1/164

Abstract:
A PET apparatus comprises a plurality of detector units in the circumferential direction, wherein the detector unit includes a plurality of unit substrates therein, and wherein the unit substrate includes: a plurality of detectors upon which a γ-ray is incident; and an analog ASIC and digital ASIC for processing a γ-ray detection signal outputted by each of the detectors. The analog ASIC includes two slow systems having mutually different time constants, each of which outputs a pulseheight value. A noise determination part of the digital ASIC determines whether a relevant detection signal is an intended γ-ray detection signal or a noise based on a correlation between the pulseheight values, and a noise counting part counts the number of times of noise determination, and a detector output signal processing control part controls the signal processing with respect to an output signal from a relevant detector based on the count.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110215254A1 NUCLEAR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-09-08
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