Study of the performance of a novel resolution dual‐panel PET camera design dedicated to breast cancer imaging using Monte Carlo simulation

J Zhang, PD Olcott, G Chinn, AMK Foudray… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the performance of a dual‐panel positron emission tomography (PET) camera
dedicated to breast cancer imaging using Monte Carlo simulation. The PET camera under …

Comparison of image quality and lesion detection between digital and analog PET/CT

DA López-Mora, A Flotats, F Fuentes-Ocampo… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Objective The purpose of this study was to compare image quality and lesion detection
capability between a digital and an analog PET/CT system in oncological patients. Materials …

Objective and subjective comparison of standard 2-D and fully 3-D reconstructed data on a PET/CT system

K Strobel, M Rüdy, V Treyer… - Nuclear medicine …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Objective The relative advantage of fully 3-D versus 2-D mode for whole-body imaging is
currently the focus of considerable expert debate. The nature of 3-D PET acquisition for FDG …

Impact of PET/CT in comparison with same day contrast enhanced CT in breast cancer management

E Piperkova, B Raphael, ME Altinyay… - Clinical nuclear …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: To evaluate the impact of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission
tomography with fused computerized tomography (PET/CT) in comparison with same day …

Hybrid total-body pet scanners—current status and future perspectives

V Nadig, K Herrmann, FM Mottaghy… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Since the 1990s, PET has been successfully combined with MR or CT systems. In
the past years, especially PET systems have seen a trend towards an enlarged axial field of …

Impact of patient weight and emission scan duration on PET/CT image quality and lesion detectability

BS Halpern, M Dahlbom, A Quon… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
This study was performed to prospectively evaluate fast PET/CT imaging protocols using
lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) detector technology and 3-dimensional (3D) image …

Performance characteristics of the Biograph Vision Quadra PET/CT system with a long axial field of view using the NEMA NU 2-2018 standard

GA Prenosil, H Sari, M Fürstner… - Journal of nuclear …, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
Our purpose was to evaluate the performance of the Biograph Vision Quadra PET/CT
system. This new system is based on the Biograph Vision 600, using the same silicon …

Results from prototype II of the BNL simultaneous PET-MRI dedicated breast scanner

B Ravindranath, SS Junnarkar… - 2009 IEEE Nuclear …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At Brookhaven National Laboratory, we are developing a simultaneous PET-MRI breast
imaging system. A prototype II version of the PET system has been constructed. This device …

PET imaging for breast cancer

AM Fowler, SY Cho - Radiologic Clinics, 2021 - radiologic.theclinics.com
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy diagnosed in women and is the leading
cause of cancer-related deaths for women worldwide. 1 In 2020, approximately 276,480 …

Minimum lesion detectability as a measure of PET system performance

S Adler, J Seidel, P Choyke, MV Knopp, K Binzel… - EJNMMI physics, 2017 - Springer
Background A phantom in combination with an imaging protocol was developed to measure
the limit of small lesion detection on different PET systems. Seven small spheres with inner …