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US 7,467,008 B2Granted
Ectography multimodality imaging system for diagnosis and treatment
AssigneeSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
InventorA Hans Vija
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Abstract
A system and method of integrating a nuclear medicine imaging device such as a gamma camera with a patient handling system where the nuclear medicine imaging system does not prevent full access to the patient and does not interfere with the field of view of accompanying modalities accommodated by use of the patient handling system.
Claims26
A multimodality imaging system comprising:
- an anatomical imaging device having a field of view (FOV);
- a Patient Handling System (PHS), wherein said PHS has a bed and a support for said bed, for positioning a patient to be imaged by said anatomical imaging device;
- a nuclear medicine imaging device, having a radiation detector and a collimator being integrated and movable with said PHS such that imaging of a patient on said bed can be conducted without said nuclear medicine imaging device interfering with the field of view of said anatomical imaging device.
A method for multimodality scanning of a patient comprising:
- integrating a nuclear medicine scanning device with a Patient Handling System (PHS) that is used to position a patient for imaging by an accompanying imaging modality having a field of view (FOV), such that the scanning device is movable with the PHS and does not interfere with the field of view of said accompanying imaging modality, wherein said PHS has a bed and a support for said bed, and wherein the nuclear medicine scanning device has a detector and a collimator;
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- scanning the patient by the nuclear medicine scanning device such that the scanning device does not prevent full access to the patient during scanning.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.