US 11,986,329 B2
Nuclear medicine imaging systems and methods having detector heads with two collimators
Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Zichron Yaacov (IL); Jeffrey Michael Levy, Tel-Aviv—Yaffo (IL); and Yuval Liberman, Ramat Yishai (IL)
Assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US)
Filed by GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/519,756.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146608 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/06 (2006.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01)
CPC A61B 6/06 (2013.01) [A61B 6/03 (2013.01); A61B 6/4266 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radiation detector head assembly for a nuclear medicine multi-head imaging system, comprising:
a detector column configured to rotate within the radiation detector head assembly, comprising:
a detector having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface;
a first collimator disposed over the first surface of the detector configured for use during nuclear imaging scans involving radiation in a first energy range emitted from a first radiopharmaceutical in an objet to be imaged; and
a second collimator disposed over the second surface of the detector configured for use during nuclear imaging scans involving radiation in a second energy range emitted from a second radiopharmaceutical in the object to be imaged, wherein the second energy range is different from the first energy range.