Compact conscious animal positron emission tomography scanner

Schyler, David J; O'Connor, Paul; Woody, Craig; Junnarkar, Sachin Shrirang; Radeka, Veljko; Vaska, Paul; Pratte, Jean-Francois; Volkow, Nora

Compact conscious animal positron emission tomography scanner

Patent · Tue Oct 24 04:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:1033756

Schyler, David J ^[1]; O'Connor, Paul ^[1]; Woody, Craig ^[2]; Junnarkar, Sachin Shrirang ^[3]; Radeka, Veljko ^[1]; Vaska, Paul ^[3]; Pratte, Jean-Francois ^[4]; Volkow, Nora ^[5]

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A method of serially transferring annihilation information in a compact positron emission tomography (PET) scanner includes generating a time signal for an event, generating an address signal representing a detecting channel, generating a detector channel signal including the time and address signals, and generating a composite signal including the channel signal and similarly generated signals. The composite signal includes events from detectors in a block and is serially output. An apparatus that serially transfers annihilation information from a block includes time signal generators for detectors in a block and an address and channel signal generator. The PET scanner includes a ring tomograph that mounts onto a portion of an animal, which includes opposing block pairs. Each of the blocks in a block pair includes a scintillator layer, detection array, front-end array, and a serial encoder. The serial encoder includes time signal generators and an address signal and channel signal generator.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886

Assignee:: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 7,126,126

Application Number:: 10/687,797

OSTI ID:: 1033756

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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