Historically, medical devices to image either anatomical structure or functional processes
have developed along somewhat independent paths. The recognition that combining …

Approaches to imaging the breast with nuclear medicine and/or molecular imaging methods
have been under investigation since the late 1980s when a technique called …

Depth-of-interaction (DOI) positron emission tomography (PET) detector with time-of-flight
(TOF) readout has been developed in recent years. With DOI, PET scanner could achieve …

We extrapolate the impact of recent detector and scintillator developments, enabling sub-
nanosecond coincidence timing resolution (τ), onto in-beam positron emission tomography …

The role of positron emission tomography (PET) during the past decade has evolved rapidly
from that of a pure research tool to a methodology of enormous clinical potential. 18F …

Breast-dedicated radionuclide imaging systems show promise for increasing clinical
sensitivity for breast cancer while minimizing patient dose and cost. We present several …

Abstract A dedicated breast PET/CT system has been constructed at our institution, with the
goal of having increased spatial resolution and sensitivity compared to whole-body systems …

As any radiation detector, a scintillator is an absorbing material, which has the additional
property to convert into light a fraction of the energy deposited by ionizing radiation …

The influence of the geometry of the scintillators is presented in this paper. We focus on the
effect of narrowing down the section of crystals that have a given length. The light output of a …

This paper presents a novel PET geometry for breast cancer imaging. The scanner consists
of a'stadium'(a rectangle with two semi-circles on opposite sides) shaped ring, along with …