Physics and technology of time-of-flight PET detectors

DR Schaart - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The imaging performance of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems has
evolved impressively during the last∼ 15 years. A main driver of these improvements has …

Positron emission tomography: current challenges and opportunities for technological advances in clinical and preclinical imaging systems

JJ Vaquero, P Kinahan - Annual review of biomedical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is based on detecting two time-coincident high-
energy photons from the emission of a positron-emitting radioisotope. The physics of the …

Total body PET: why, how, what for?

S Surti, AR Pantel, JS Karp - IEEE transactions on radiation and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
PET instruments are now available with a long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) to enable imaging
the total-body, or at least head and torso, simultaneously and without bed translation. This …

Sensors for positron emission tomography applications

W Jiang, Y Chalich, MJ Deen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an essential tool in clinical applications for
the diagnosis of diseases due to its ability to acquire functional images to help differentiate …

Advances in time-of-flight PET

S Surti, JS Karp - Physica medica, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review and an update on time-of-flight PET imaging with a focus on
PET instrumentation, ranging from hardware design to software algorithms. We first present …

Innovations in instrumentation for positron emission tomography

E Berg, SR Cherry - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
PET scanners are sophisticated and highly sensitive biomedical imaging devices that can
produce highly quantitative images showing the 3-dimensional distribution of radiotracers …

Performance evaluation of the MOLECUBES β-CUBE—a high spatial resolution and high sensitivity small animal PET scanner utilizing monolithic LYSO scintillation …

S Krishnamoorthy, E Blankemeyer… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The MOLECUBES β-CUBE scanner is the newest amongst commercially available
preclinical PET scanners for dedicated small animal imaging. The scanner is compact …

A neural network-based algorithm for simultaneous event positioning and timestamping in monolithic scintillators

P Carra, MG Bisogni, E Ciarrocchi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Monolithic scintillator crystals coupled to silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays are
promising detectors for PET applications, offering spatial resolution around 1 mm and depth …

Small animal PET: a review of what we have done and where we are going

RS Miyaoka, AL Lehnert - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Small animal research is an essential tool in studying both pharmaceutical biodistribution
and disease progression over time. Furthermore, through the rapid development of in vivo …

International EANM-SNMMI-ISMRM consensus recommendation for PET/MRI in oncology

P Veit-Haibach, H Ahlström, R Boellaard… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Preamble The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an
international scientific and professional organization founded in 1954 to promote the …