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FIGURE 1. Respiratory gating device built to trigger gated acquisition at the start of each breathing cycle. A high-sensitivity thermistor was installed at the inlet of a conventional disposable oxygen face mask. This thermistor was connected to a simple circuit equipped with a discriminator and a variable-resistance dial, powered by 5 V with AA batteries. The output of this circuit was fed to the 5-V input of the PET scanner.

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