A single photon emission computed tomograph comprising a detector ring and a rotatable collimator assembly disposed within the detector ring. The rotatable collimator assembly comprises four collimator quadrants, and each of the four collimator quadrants comprises a plurality of collimator modules with their axes assembled in parallel. Each of the modules contains a plurality of inwardly directed channels focused to a single point on its own axis with a long focal length. The focal length of each of the collimator modules is individually and flexibly chosen to suit a particular imaging task. The four collimator quadrants are installed in the rotatable collimator assembly at a slightly different angular offset so as to achieve fine data sampling.
Patent
Single photon emission computed tomograph using focused modular collimators
United States Patent and Trademark Office
05/31/1988
PDM V1.0, Open Access
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Single photon emission computed tomograph using focused modular collimators
- Creators
- Wei Chang (Inventor)Peter Kirchner (Inventor)Karim Rezai (Inventor)
- Contributors
- University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, IA, US) (Assignee)
- Resource Type
- Patent
- Publisher
- United States Patent and Trademark Office; United States
- Patent
- US Patent 4,748,328; United States Patent and Trademark Office (United States, Alexandria) - USPTO; Published; 06/884,080; 07/10/1986
- Number of pages
- 7 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/31/1988
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; UI Research Foundation
- Record Identifier
- 9983761983202771
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