Technical opportunities and challenges in developing total-body PET scanners for mice and rats

J Du, T Jones - EJNMMI physics, 2023 - Springer
Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive in vivo molecular imaging
technique available. Small animal PET has been widely used in studying pharmaceutical …

High‐resolution and high‐sensitivity PET for quantitative molecular imaging of the monoaminergic nuclei: A GATE simulation study

Z Wang, X Cao, A LaBella, X Zeng, A Biegon… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Quantitative in vivo molecular imaging of fine brain structures requires high‐spatial
resolution and high‐sensitivity. Positron emission tomography (PET) is an attractive …

Simulation Study of Clinical PET Scanners With Different Geometries, Including TOF and DOI Capabilities

G Cañizares, S Jiménez-Serrano… - … on Radiation and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Total Body Positron Emission Tomography (TB-PET) scanners provide high-quality images
due to the large sensitivity. Our motivation is to design a TB-PET system with up to 70 cm …

Design and modeling of a high resolution and high sensitivity PET brain scanner with double-ended readout

C Layden, K Klein, W Matava, A Sadam… - Biomedical Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In the wake of recent advancements in scintillator, photodetector, and low-noise fast
electronics technologies, as well as in fast reconstruction software, positron emission …