Current status of dedicated breast PET imaging

KK Miyake, Y Nakamoto, K Togashi - Current Radiology Reports, 2016 - Springer
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a useful technique to visualize biologic processes
within body. Techniques of PET imaging for breast cancer continue to evolve and have been …

Influence of temperature and bias voltage on the performance of a high resolution PET detector built with position sensitive avalanche photodiodes

A Vandenbroucke, TJ McLaughlin… - Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We evaluate the performance of an 8× 8 array of 0.9× 0.9× 1 mm 3 cerium doped lutetium
oxyothosilicate (LSO) crystals coupled to a position sensitive avalanche photodiode …

Synthesis of a new 18 F labeled porphyrin for potential application in positron emission tomography. In vivo imaging and cellular uptake

AVC Simões, SMA Pinto, MJF Calvete, CMF Gomes… - RSC …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein we report, for the first time, the development, labeling optimization and preliminary
biodistribution studies of an [18F] radiolabeled meso-tetraphenylporphyrin. After synthesis …

Comparison of GPU reconstruction based on different symmetries for dual‐head PET

F Meng, J Wang, S Zhu, J Cheng, J Liang… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Dual‐head positron emission tomography (PET) scanners have increasingly
attracted the attention of many researchers. However, with the compact geometry, the depth …

Investigating the limit of detectability of a positron emission mammography device: a phantom study

NA Shkumat, A Springer, CM Walker… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: A new positron emission mammography (PEM) device (PEM Flex Solo II, Naviscan
Inc., San Diego, CA) has recently been introduced and its performance characteristics have …

Pixelated CdTe detectors to overcome intrinsic limitations of crystal based positron emission mammographs

G De Lorenzo, M Chmeissani, D Uzun… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A positron emission mammograph (PEM) is an organ dedicated positron emission
tomography (PET) scanner for breast cancer detection. State-of-the-art PEMs employing …

Design and test issues of an FPGA based data acquisition system for medical imaging using PEM

C Leong, P Bento, P Lousã, J Nobre… - … on Nuclear Science, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main aspects of the design and test (D&T) of a reconfigurable architecture for the Data
Acquisition Electronics (DAE) system of the Clear-PEM detector are presented in this paper …

Preliminary performance characterization of DbPET2. 1, a PET scanner dedicated to the imaging of the breast and extremities

A Ferrero, Q Peng, GW Burkett Jr… - Biomedical physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The combined effort of several laboratories at our institution resulted in the building of the
first high-resolution PET/CT prototype dedicated to imaging the extremities of the body …

Quantification with a dedicated breast PET/CT scanner

SL Bowen, A Ferrero, RD Badawi - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Dedicated breast PET/CT is expected to have utility in local staging, surgical
planning, monitoring of therapy response, and detection of residual disease for breast …

The ClearPEM breast imaging scanner

JA Neves, ClearPEM Collaboration - Nuclear Instruments and Methods …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present results on the characterization of the ClearPEM breast imaging scanner.
ClearPEM is a dual-head positron emission mammography scanner using APD-based …