Radioimaging using low dose isotope
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1. A method for identifying a nuclear medicine camera design optimized with respect to functional information gained about a body structure, comprising:
- modeling a body-structure, based on its geometry;
modeling anatomical constraints, which limit accessibility to the body structure;
optimizing a camera design using said modeled body-structure and said modeled anatomical constraints; and
performing, with said camera design, radioactive-emission measurements of an in-vivo body-structure that corresponds to said body structure that has been modeled.
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Abstract
Radioimaging methods, devices and radiopharmaceuticals therefor.
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1. A method for identifying a nuclear medicine camera design optimized with respect to functional information gained about a body structure, comprising:
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modeling a body-structure, based on its geometry; modeling anatomical constraints, which limit accessibility to the body structure; optimizing a camera design using said modeled body-structure and said modeled anatomical constraints; and performing, with said camera design, radioactive-emission measurements of an in-vivo body-structure that corresponds to said body structure that has been modeled. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A nuclear medicine imaging system, comprising:
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a radioactive-emission camera, comprising; a plurality of independently moveable detecting units; a plurality of motion transfer systems, equal in number to a number of said detecting units, each of the motion transfer systems being in mechanical communication with one of the detecting unit, for moving each said detecting unit; and a controller for optimizing said radioactive-emission camera configured to; model a body structure, based on its geometry; model anatomical constraints, which limit accessibility to the body structure; optimize a camera design using said modeled body-structure and said modeled anatomical constraints. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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