Combined PET/MRI scanner

Schlyer, David; Woody, Craig L; Rooney, William; Vaska, Paul; Stoll, Sean; Pratte, Jean-Francois; O'Connor, Paul

Combined PET/MRI scanner

Patent · Tue Oct 23 04:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:919067

Schlyer, David ^[1]; Woody, Craig L ^[2]; Rooney, William ^[3]; Vaska, Paul ^[4]; Stoll, Sean ^[5]; Pratte, Jean-Francois ^[6]; O'Connor, Paul ^[1]

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A combined PET/MRI scanner generally includes a magnet for producing a magnetic field suitable for magnetic resonance imaging, a radiofrequency (RF) coil disposed within the magnetic field produced by the magnet and a ring tomograph disposed within the magnetic field produced by the magnet. The ring tomograph includes a scintillator layer for outputting at least one photon in response to an annihilation event, a detection array coupled to the scintillator layer for detecting the at least one photon outputted by the scintillator layer and for outputting a detection signal in response to the detected photon and a front-end electronic array coupled to the detection array for receiving the detection signal, wherein the front-end array has a preamplifier and a shaper network for conditioning the detection signal.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: United States Department of Energy

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886

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

Patent Number(s):: 7,286,867

Application Number:: 10/966,412

OSTI ID:: 919067

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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