ECAT ART—a continuously rotating PET camera: performance characteristics, initial clinical studies, and installation considerations in a nuclear medicine department

DL Bailey, H Young, PM Bloomfield, SR Meikle… - European journal of …, 1997 - Springer
… This paper reports the performance characteristics of the first commercial version of the
rotating tomograph known as the ECAT ART (Advanced Rotating Tomograph), implications for …

Basic imaging performance characteristics of a variable field of view PET camera using quadrant sharing detector design

J Uribe, H Baghaei, H Li, S Yokoyama… - … on Nuclear Science, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The basic imaging performance of the prototype PET camera (MDAPET) developed in our
laboratory was measured. The MDAPET was developed to test the engineering feasibility of …

Imaging performance of A-PET: a small animal PET camera

S Surti, JS Karp, AE Perkins, CA Cardi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and evaluate the performance of an animal PET scanner (A-PET) designed to achieve good
spatial resolution ( 2 mm) and high sensitivity in a simplified design. The A-PET has a very …

Triple-head gamma camera PET: system overview and performance characteristics

D Grošev, S Loncaric, S Vandenberghe… - Nuclear medicine …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
… gamma camera PET system is to add another detector head. This work investigates the
characteristics of one such triple-head gamma camera PET system capable of performing triple-…

Data acquisition and performance characterization in PET

DL Bailey - Positron emission tomography: basic sciences, 2005 - Springer
… A conventional PET camera with interplane septa in 2D mode detects around 4,000–5,000
coincidence events per 106 (~0.5%) positron emissions with approximately uniform …

Performance characteristics of a new 3-dimensional continuous-emission and spiral-transmission high-sensitivity and high-resolution PET camera evaluated with the …

K Matsumoto, K Kitamura, T Mizuta… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
… replacing dedicated PET cameras in the market, and the PET camera described in this
article can constitute the PET part of a PET/CT scanner. Most of the currently available PET/CT …

PET imaging using gamma camera systems: a review

PH Jarritt, PD Acton - Nuclear medicine communications, 1996 - journals.lww.com
performance characteristics of these two approaches and compares them with those from two-
and three-dimensional PET … limitations in the performance characteristics of these systems …

Design evaluation of A-PET: A high sensitivity animal PET camera

S Surti, JS Karp, AE Perkins, R Freifelder… - IEEE transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We achieve these performance characteristics while keeping the scanner design simple …
[2] AP Jeavons, RA Chandler, and CAR Dettmar, “A 3-D HIDAC-PET camera with submillimeter …

Performance characteristics of a new generation of processing circuits for PET applications

MS Musrock, JW Young, JC Moyers… - … on Nuclear Science, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
PET applications. Measured linearity of the energy channel is 1.8% over the 6:1 range required
for our PET … for high resolution PET and gamma camera,” in Proc. NSS-MIC Conf. Rec. …

Comparisons of clinical performance with standard measures of PET cameras

RJ Smith, JS Karp - … and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
performance tests of PET Cameras provide standard measurements of their intrinsic physical
characteristics … However the clinical performance of PET cameras are more clearly defined …