Calculation of positron range and its effect on the fundamental limit of positron emission tomography system spatial resolution

CS Levin, EJ Hoffman - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Developments in positron emission tomography (PET) technology have resulted in systems
with finer detector elements designed to further improve spatial resolution. However, there is …

Fast, accurate and shift-varying line projections for iterative reconstruction using the GPU

…, G Chinn, PD Olcott, CS Levin - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
List-mode processing provides an efficient way to deal with sparse projections in iterative
image reconstruction for emission tomography. An issue often reported is the tremendous …

Design of a high-resolution and high-sensitivity scintillation crystal array for PET with nearly complete light collection

CS Levin - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial resolution improvements in positron emission tomography (PET) can be achieved by
developing detector arrays with finer resolution elements. To maintain high sensitivity and …

A Monte Carlo correction for the effect of Compton scattering in 3-D PET brain imaging

CS Levin, M Dahlbom… - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Monte Carlo simulation has been developed to simulate and correct for the effect of
Compton scatter in 3-D acquired PET brain scans. The method utilizes the 3-D reconstructed …

NEMA NU 2‐2012 performance studies for the SiPM‐based ToF‐PET component of the GE SIGNA PET/MR system

…, SH Maramraju, G Delso, CS Levin - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The GE SIGNA PET/MR is a new whole body integrated time‐of‐flight (ToF)‐PET/MR
scanner from GE Healthcare. The system is capable of simultaneous PET and MR image …

Studies of a next-generation silicon-photomultiplier–based time-of-flight PET/CT system

…, J Uribe, M Lubberink, CS Levin - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
This article presents system performance studies for the Discovery MI PET/CT system, a new
time-of-flight system based on silicon photomultipliers. System performance and clinical …

Design features and mutual compatibility studies of the time-of-flight PET capable GE SIGNA PET/MR system

CS Levin, SH Maramraju, MM Khalighi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A recent entry into the rapidly evolving field of integrated PET/MR scanners is presented in
this paper: a whole body hybrid PET/MR system (SIGNA PET/MR, GE Healthcare) capable of …

[HTML][HTML] Photo-detectors for time of flight positron emission tomography (ToF-PET)

VC Spanoudaki, CS Levin⋆ - Sensors, 2010 - mdpi.com
We present the most recent advances in photo-detector design employed in time of flight
positron emission tomography (ToF-PET). PET is a molecular imaging modality that collects …

Primer on molecular imaging technology

CS Levin - European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2005 - Springer
A wide range of technologies is available for in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro molecular and
cellular imaging. This article focuses on three key in vivo imaging system instrumentation …

First performance results of Ce: GAGG scintillation crystals with silicon photomultipliers

…, K Kamada, T Endo, CS Levin - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new single-crystal Cerium doped Gd 3 Al 2 Ga 3 O 123 Al 2 Ga 3 O 12 (GAGG) scintillation
crystal with high luminosity, high density and relatively fast decay time has successfully …