… In recent developments, the axial FOV of BOO-based PET scanners has been increased to
â… heart, and more efficient scanning of the whole body for oncologic applications of PET (3,4). …

… developed highresolution whole-body PET scanner ECAT EXACT HR '. Methods: … ,
whole-body PET studies were mostly performed without attenuation correction to limit the total scan …

… is a combination of the dose from PET and the dose from CT. It is … PET/CT scanning.
Therefore, we aimed to (a) estimate the radiation exposure of patients undergoing whole-body PET/…

… PET scanners with a long axial FOV covering at least the majority of the body (so called total
body PET … challenges of total body PET systems, the different total body PET system designs …

… While total-body PET (TB-PET) is clearly achieved with the 200 cm scanner, here we will
use the term TB-PET to refer to a scanner long enough to capture the major organs of the body, …

… whole-body PET/MR scanner. There are considerable advantages to integrating both
modalities in a single scanner … the possible degradation of both PET and MR performance in an …

… In 2005, our team at UC Davis committed to developing a PET scanner long enough to
simultaneously image the entire human body. Monte Carlo simulations suggested that the total-…

… lesion detectability, two important tasks in whole-body oncologic studies. The broader goal …
-of-art TOF PET scanner operating within an MRI while pushing the technology in PET system …

… In this work, the physical response of the PET scanner of the new integrated PET/CT system
… of the system in both brain and whole-body imaging applications, both the NEMA NU 2-…

… Whereas conventional whole-body PET/CT might miss distant metastases due to its limited
scan range (that is, head to thigh), total-body PET can cover the entire body (head to toe) in a …