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US 10,517,557 B2Granted
Systems and methods for molecular breast imaging
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsYaron Hefetz, Nurit Rivka Wartski, Pavel Livshits, Jonathan Sachs
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for molecular breast imaging. In one embodiment, a method for nuclear medicine imaging comprises: during an acquisition of emission data from an anatomy of interest, calculating an average counts per pixel in non-target tissue; and responsive to the average counts per pixel reaching a threshold, automatically stopping the acquisition. In this way, an amount of time spent by a patient undergoing an MBI procedure is optimized for the patient.
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A method for nuclear medicine imaging, comprising:
- during an acquisition of emission data from an anatomy of interest, calculating an average counts per pixel in non-target tissue;
- and
- responsive to the average counts per pixel reaching a threshold, automatically stopping the acquisition.
A nuclear medicine system, comprising:
- a detector configured to detect photons emanating from an anatomy of interest;
- a computer communicatively coupled to the detector and configured with executable instructions in non-transitory memory that when executed cause the computer to:
- during an acquisition of emission data from [[an]]the anatomy of interest, calculate an average counts per pixel in non-target tissue;
- and
- responsive to the average counts per pixel reaching a threshold, automatically stop the acquisition.
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