Characterization of 4 PET/CT Tomographs Considered in This Study
| Hospital | PET/CT tomograph | CT system | PET system | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Model | Model | n* | Model | Detector material | Acquisition mode | Axial field of view (cm) | ||||||
| H1 | General Electric | Discovery LS | Lightspeed Plus | 4 | Advance Nxi | BGO | 2D and 3D | 15.2 | |||||
| H2 | Philips | Gemini | Mx8000 | 2 | Allegro | GSO | 3D | 18.0 | |||||
| H3 | CPS Innovations | Biograph Emotion Duo | Emotion Duo | 2 | ECAT EXACT HR+ | BGO | 3D | 15.5 | |||||
| H4 | CPS Innovations | Biograph Sensation 16 | Sensation 16 | 16 | ECAT ACCEL | LSO | 3D | 16.2 | |||||
↵* n = number of simultaneously acquired slices.
BGO = bismuth germanate; 2D = 2-dimensional; 3D = 3-dimensional; GSO = germanium oxyorthosilicate; LSO = lutetium oxyorthosilicate.