Application specific emission and transmission tomography

Tornai, Martin P.; Bowsher, James E.; Peter, Joerg

Title: Application specific emission and transmission tomography

Abstract

A compact and mobile gantry for 3-dimensional Application Specific Emission and/or Transmission Tomography (ASETT) imaging of the breast in single photon or coincidence emission modes, and single photon, or coincidence, or x-ray transmission modes. While the ASETT gantry was designed, built and evaluated for imaging metabolically active lesions in the pendant breast, it can also be used to image other organs and objects. This system overcomes physical constraints associated with imaging a pendulous breast in prone patients, while simultaneously satisfying sampling criteria for sufficient data collection in the pendulous breast reference frame. When combined with an offset cone-beam tomographic x-ray transmission imaging system, this dual modality ASETT system could provide simultaneous and coregistered structural and functional information about large or dense breasts, breasts with indeterminate x-ray mammography, and could also be used to accurately 3-dimensionally guide biopsy or surgical resection. Moreover, with the offset beam orientation, the transmission system is designed to have a variable FOV and minimize overall absorbed breast dose.

Inventors:: Tornai, Martin P.; Bowsher, James E.; Peter, Joerg

Issue Date:: 2009-10-27

Research Org.:: Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1531607

Patent Number(s):: 7609808

Application Number:: 10/106,393

Assignee:: Duke University (Durham, NC)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61B - DIAGNOSIS

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A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61B - DIAGNOSIS
A61B6/583 - {using calibration phantoms
A61B6/037 - {Emission tomography
A61B6/502 - {involving diagnosis of breast, i.e. mammography}

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DOE Contract Number:: FG02-96ER62150

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2002-03-27

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE

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  abstractNote = {A compact and mobile gantry for 3-dimensional Application Specific Emission and/or Transmission Tomography (ASETT) imaging of the breast in single photon or coincidence emission modes, and single photon, or coincidence, or x-ray transmission modes. While the ASETT gantry was designed, built and evaluated for imaging metabolically active lesions in the pendant breast, it can also be used to image other organs and objects. This system overcomes physical constraints associated with imaging a pendulous breast in prone patients, while simultaneously satisfying sampling criteria for sufficient data collection in the pendulous breast reference frame. When combined with an offset cone-beam tomographic x-ray transmission imaging system, this dual modality ASETT system could provide simultaneous and coregistered structural and functional information about large or dense breasts, breasts with indeterminate x-ray mammography, and could also be used to accurately 3-dimensionally guide biopsy or surgical resection. Moreover, with the offset beam orientation, the transmission system is designed to have a variable FOV and minimize overall absorbed breast dose.},

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Implementation and initial characterization of acquisition orbits about a pendulous breast using the ASET system conference, January 2002

Asymmetric fan transmission CT on SPECT systems journal, May 1995

Design of combined X-ray CT and SPECT systems for small animals conference, January 1999

Attenuation compensation for cardiac single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging: Part 1. Impact of attenuation and methods of estimating attenuation maps* journal, November 1995

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journal, June 2000

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