The scanner consists of four rings of 72 bismuth germanate block detectors each, covering
an axial field of view of 15.5 cm with a patient port of 56.2 cm. A single block detector is …

MATERIALS AND METhODS System Description The newly designed PET scanner
(Advance, General Electric Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI) has 12,096 bismuth …

This study evaluates the 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) performance
characteristics of a newly developed PET/CT scanner using the National Electrical …

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) standard NU 4-2008 for
performance measurements of small-animal tomographs was recently published. Before this …

The SET-2400W is a newly designed whole-body PET scanner with a large axial field of
view (20 cm). Its physical performance was investigated and evaluated. The scanner …

A whole-body PET scanner, without interplane septa, has been designed to achieve high
performance in clinical applications. The C-PET scanner, an advancement of the PENN PET …

Detectors with depth-encoding allow a PET scanner to simultaneously achieve high
sensitivity and high spatial resolution. Methods: A prototype PET scanner, consisting of …

A novel whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) system based on plastic
scintillators is developed by the J-PET Collaboration. It consists of plastic scintillator strips …

Characterisation of the physical performance of the new integrated PET/CT system
Discovery ST (GE Medical Systems) has been performed following the NEMA NU 2-1994 (N …

The purpose of the presented research is estimation of the performance characteristics of
the economic total-body Jagiellonian-PET system (TB-J-PET) constructed from plastic …