[HTML][HTML] Sensors for positron emission tomography applications

W Jiang, Y Chalich, MJ Deen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an essential tool in clinical applications for
the diagnosis of diseases due to its ability to acquire functional images to help differentiate …

Small animal PET: a review of what we have done and where we are going

RS Miyaoka, AL Lehnert - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Small animal research is an essential tool in studying both pharmaceutical biodistribution
and disease progression over time. Furthermore, through the rapid development of in vivo …

ALBIRA: a small animal PET/SPECT/CT imaging system

F Sánchez, A Orero, A Soriano, C Correcher… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The authors have developed a trimodal PET/SPECT/CT scanner for small animal
imaging. The gamma ray subsystems are based on monolithic crystals coupled to …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative preclinical PET imaging: opportunities and challenges

C Kuntner, D Stout - Frontiers in physics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
PET imaging of metabolism involves many choices, from hardware settings, software options
to animal handling considerations. How to decide what settings or conditions to use is not …

Performance evaluation of a new dedicated breast PET scanner using NEMA NU4-2008 standards

KK Miyake, K Matsumoto, M Inoue… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance characteristics of a newly developed
dedicated breast PET scanner, according to National Electrical Manufacturers Association …

PET performance evaluation of MADPET4: a small animal PET insert for a 7 T MRI scanner

N Omidvari, J Cabello, G Topping… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
MADPET4 is the first small animal PET insert with two layers of individually read out crystals
in combination with silicon photomultiplier technology. It has a novel detector arrangement …

[HTML][HTML] Performance evaluation of a PET of 7T bruker micro-PET/MR based on NEMA NU 4-2008 standards

KKM Doss, PE Mion, YCJ Kao, TT Kuo, JC Chen - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Purpose: This study aimed to measure the performance evaluation of the Bruker sequential
micro-positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) scanner by …

[HTML][HTML] Requirements of scintillation crystals with the development of PET scanners

X Yu, X Zhang, H Zhang, H Peng, Q Ren, J Xu, Q Peng… - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in the diagnosis of tumors,
cardiovascular system diseases, and neurological diseases. Scintillation crystals are an …

NEMA NU-4 performance evaluation of PETbox4, a high sensitivity dedicated PET preclinical tomograph

Z Gu, R Taschereau, NT Vu, H Wang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
PETbox4 is a new, fully tomographic bench top PET scanner dedicated to high sensitivity
and high resolution imaging of mice. This manuscript characterizes the performance of the …

NEMA NU‐4 2008 performance evaluation of Xtrim‐PET: A prototype SiPM‐based preclinical scanner

M Amirrashedi, S Sarkar, P Ghafarian… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Xtrim‐PET is a newly designed Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs)‐based prototype
PET scanner dedicated for small laboratory animal imaging. We present the performance …