Performance evaluation of the Ingenuity TF PET/CT scanner with a focus on high count-rate conditions

JA Kolthammer, KH Su, A Grover… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This study evaluated the positron emission tomography (PET) imaging performance of the
Ingenuity TF 128 PET/computed tomography (CT) scanner which has a PET component that …

Virtual-pinhole PET

YC Tai, H Wu, D Pal, JA O'Sullivan - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
We proposed and tested a novel geometry for PET system design analogous to pinhole
SPECT called the virtual-pinhole PET (VP-PET) geometry to determine whether it could …

The challenge of detector designs for PET

TK Lewellen - American Journal of Roentgenology, 2010 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The use of PET, especially the use of PET/CT scanners, has expanded rapidly
over the past few years. Although most of the detector development efforts have been …

PET performance evaluation of MADPET4: a small animal PET insert for a 7 T MRI scanner

N Omidvari, J Cabello, G Topping… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
MADPET4 is the first small animal PET insert with two layers of individually read out crystals
in combination with silicon photomultiplier technology. It has a novel detector arrangement …

Investigation of lanthanum scintillators for 3D PET

S Surti, JS Karp, G Muehllehner… - 2002 IEEE Nuclear …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main thrust for this work is the investigation and design of a PET scanner based on new
Lanthanum Halide scintillators. In 3-D PET the major limitations are scanner dead-time and …

Validation of GATE Monte Carlo simulations of the GE Advance/Discovery LS PET scanners

CR Schmidtlein, AS Kirov, SA Nehmeh, YE Erdi… - Medical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The recently developed GATE (geant4 application for tomographic emission) Monte Carlo
package, designed to simulate positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon …

Performance assessment of a preclinical PET scanner with pinhole collimation by comparison to a coincidence-based small-animal PET scanner

MD Walker, MC Goorden, K Dinelle… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET imaging of rodents is increasingly used in preclinical research, but its utility is limited by
spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of the images. A recently developed preclinical …

[PDF][PDF] Continuous-slice PENN-PET: a positron tomograph with volume imaging capability

JS Karp, G Muehllehner, DA Mankoff… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1990 - Soc Nuclear Med
Department ofRadiology, University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania large
acceptance angle in the axial direction, relying on shielding only to reduce the amount of …

Performance evaluation of the whole-body PET scanner ECAT EXACT HR/sup+/following the IEC standard

LE Adam, J Zaers, H Ostertag, H Trojan… - … on Nuclear Science, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance parameters of the whole-body PET scanner ECAT EXACT HR/sup+/(CTI/
Siemens, Knoxville, TN) were determined following the standard proposed by the …