Patents Examined by David Forta
  • Patent number: 7342232
    Abstract: A device and method used in the high resolution Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems for digitizing radiation events for a scintillation camera and a data acquisition system. The device comprises a scintillation digitizer, including a plurality of comparators and amplifiers, two ADCs, and an analyzer for resolving the digital values of radiation events. The method comprises comparing a plurality of analog electric pulses generated upon radiation event detections with a reference voltage corresponding to an energy level of interest, amplifying all of the signals with two groups of coefficients, summing the two groups of amplified signals, digitizing the summed signals, and analyzing the digitized sums to determine digital values corresponding to a plurality of the radiation events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: National Health Research Institutes
    Inventors: Qingguo Xie, Chien-Min Kao, Zekai Hsiau, Chin-Tu Chen