The potential of a medium-cost long axial FOV PET system for nuclear medicine departments

S Vandenberghe, NA Karakatsanis, MA Akl… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Total body positron emission tomography (TB-PET) has recently been introduced in
nuclear medicine departments. There is a large interest in these systems, but for many …

[HTML][HTML] Walk-through flat panel total-body pet: a patient-centered design for high throughput imaging at lower cost using doi-capable high-resolution monolithic …

S Vandenberghe, FM Muller, N Withofs… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) systems have a much higher sensitivity than
standard axial field-of-view (SAFOV) PET systems for imaging the torso or full body, which …

[HTML][HTML] Development, characterization, and radiation dosimetry studies of 18F-BMS-986229, a 18F-labeled PD-L1 macrocyclic peptide PET tracer

J Kim, DJ Donnelly, T Tran, A Pena, AO Shorts… - Molecular Imaging and …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose In cancer immunotherapy, the blockade of the interaction between programmed
death-1 and its ligand (PD-1: PD-L1) has proven to be one of the most promising strategies …

Added value of digital FDG-PET/CT in disease staging and restaging in patients with resectable or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer

TL de Jong, D Koopman, CAJ van der Worp… - Surgical Oncology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background We studied the added value of digital FDG-PET/CT in disease staging and
restaging compared to the standard work-up with contrast enhanced CT (ceCT) and CA19-9 …

Evaluation of cost-effective system designs for long axial field-of-view PET scanners

S Surti, ME Werner, JS Karp - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Current commercial positron emission tomography (PET) scanners have excellent
performance and diagnostic image quality primarily due to improvements in scanner …

[HTML][HTML] FDG imaging with long-axial field-of-view PET/CT in patients with high blood glucose—a matched pair analysis

C Mingels, L Weissenrieder, K Zeimpekis… - European journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose High blood glucose (hBG) in patients undergoing [18F] FDG PET/CT scans often
results in rescheduling the examination, which may lead to clinical delay for the patient and …

Deep learned triple-tracer multiplexed PET myocardial image separation

B Pan, PK Marsden, AJ Reader - Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction In multiplexed positron emission tomography (mPET) imaging, physiological
and pathological information from different radiotracers can be observed simultaneously in a …

Hybrid PET/Compton-camera imaging: an imager for the next generation

G Llosá, M Rafecas - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
Compton cameras can offer advantages over gamma cameras for some applications, since
they are well suited for multitracer imaging and for imaging high-energy radiotracers, such …

[PDF][PDF] Improved statistical quantitation of dynamic PET scans

F Gu - 2023 - cora.ucc.ie
In recent years, positron emission tomography (PET) has a wide range of clinical and
research applications in oncology, cardiology and neurology (Hoh, 2007). It is a unique …

[PDF][PDF] Brown Adipose Tissue Activity Following Exposure to the Cold and [18F] FDG Uptake: from Possible Pitfall in Early PET Scans to Metabolic Biomarker

PA Erba, A Natali, HW Strauss… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
There are three types of fat in the human body: White, Brown and Beige (1). White
adipocytes deposit extra energy into triglycerides, while beige and brown adipocytes have …