The developments in positron emission tomography (PET) are reviewed with an emphasis
on instrumentation for clinical PET imaging. After a brief summary of positron imaging before …

The availability of accurately aligned, whole-body anatomical (CT) and functional (PET)
images could have a significant impact on diagnosing and staging malignant disease and …

In this work we demonstrate the proof of principle of CT‐based attenuation correction of 3D
positron emission tomography (PET) data by using scans of bone and soft tissue equivalent …

Monte Carlo methods are extensively used in Nuclear Medicine to tackle a variety of
problems that are difficult to study by an experimental or analytical approach. A review of the …

introduced. The methods by which PET data are reconstructed into a three-dimensional
image volume are explained, along with some of the approaches that are used to analyze …

The scanner consists of four rings of 72 bismuth germanate block detectors each, covering
an axial field of view of 15.5 cm with a patient port of 56.2 cm. A single block detector is …

The ECAT HRRT is a three-dimensional (3-D) only dedicated brain tomograph employing
the new scintillator lutetium-oxy-orthosilicate (LSO) and using depth of interaction (DOI) …

MATERIALS AND METhODS System Description The newly designed PET scanner
(Advance, General Electric Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI) has 12,096 bismuth …

The NU 2-1994 standard document for PET performance measurements has recently been
updated. The updated document, NU 2-2001, includes revised measurements for spatial …

Conclusion: This is the first PET scanner to use the new scintillator LSO and uses a novel
detector design to achieve high volumetric spatial resolution. The combination of imaging …