The noise equivalent count (NEC) rate index is used to derive guidelines on the optimal
injected dose to the patient for 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) whole-body PET …

Geant4 application for tomographic emission (GATE) is a generic Monte Carlo simulation
platform based on a general-purpose code GEANT4 and designed to simulate positron …

A new high resolution PET scanner dedicated to animal studies has been designed, built
and tested. The system utilizes 240 block detectors, each of which consists of a new …

Purpose: The GE SIGNA PET/MR is a new whole body integrated time‐of‐flight (ToF)‐
PET/MR scanner from GE Healthcare. The system is capable of simultaneous PET and MR …

The recently published NEMA NU 4-2008 Standards has been specially designed for
evaluating the performance of small animal PET scanners used in preclinical applications. In …

The recently released Biograph mMR is the first commercially available integrated whole-
body PET/MR scanner. There are considerable advantages to integrating both modalities in …

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the performance of the Biograph mCT PET/CT TrueV scanner
with time of flight (TOF) and point spread function (PSF) modeling. MATERIAL AND …

The axial field of view (AFOV) of the current generation of clinical whole-body PET scanners
range from 15–22 cm, which limits sensitivity and renders applications such as whole-body …

Background Integrated clinical whole-body PET/MR systems were introduced in 2010. In
order to bring this technology into clinical usage, it is of great importance to compare the …

A full-ring PET insert device should be able to enhance the image resolution of existing
small-animal PET scanners. Methods: The device consists of 18 high-resolution PET …