Developing freehand PET-status and challenges

B Frisch, A Shah, E Auffray, P Lecoq, R Laugier, J Prior… - 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
1948 Objectives The use of positron emitting radiotracers for whole-body PET has proven to
be a valuable tool for cancer diagnosis and staging. There is however no established …

A Feasibility Study of Point-of-Care PET System

K Li, A Mathews, Q Wang, J Wen, J O'Sullivan, Y Tai - 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
436 Objectives We studied the feasibility of the point-of-care PET (POC-PET) imaging
system, designed to be compact, portable and flexible when compared to whole-body PET …

Evaluation of a high resolution silicon PET insert module

M Grkovski, K Brzezinski, V Cindro… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Conventional PET systems can be augmented with additional detectors placed in close
proximity of the region of interest. We developed a high resolution PET insert module to …

A PET Detector Suitable for Low-Dose Imaging

A Gonzalez-Montoro… - 2022 IEEE Nuclear …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) constitutes the imaging modality of excellence in
nuclear medicine since it provides accurate functional information of processes occurring …

TOF-PET imaging with sub-3 mm resolution and 215 ps coincidence resolving time using digital SiPM based monolithic scintillator detectors in a 70 cm diameter …

G Borghi, V Tabacchini, D Schaart - 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
104 Objectives Positron emission tomography (PET) detectors with better detection
efficiency, spatial resolution, depth-of-interaction (DOI) capability, and time-of-flight (TOF) …

Report on the MADEIRA PET probe

A Studen, E Chesi, V Cindro… - … & Medical Imaging …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
PET probes are showing a lot of promise in extending performance of the conventional PET
ring. The underlying idea is to supplement basic PET data with information collected in the …

Transitioning New Technology into the Reading Room: A Reconstruction Approach for New Digital PET Users

K Binzel, T Porter, R Moore, M Friel, YL Hsieh, J Zhang… - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
1596 Objectives: Next-generation digital photon counting PET/CT systems have improved
system sensitivity and time of flight timing resolution which enables more precise, higher …

Digital PET systems performances: A multicenter phantom based comparison in clinical environment

D Bourhis, C Jaudet, R Guerra, C Lasnon… - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
193 Objectives: Recently, a third manufacturer proposed a positron emission tomography
system based on silicon photomultiplier, commonly called “digital pet”. This technology …

Innovations in instrumentation for positron emission tomography

E Berg, SR Cherry - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
PET scanners are sophisticated and highly sensitive biomedical imaging devices that can
produce highly quantitative images showing the 3-dimensional distribution of radiotracers …

Monte Carlo simulation of 4-ring Discovery MI PET/CT scanner and its extended axial field-of-view to 2 m

A Tiwari, M Merrick, S Graves, J Sunderland - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
1150 Objectives: There is growing interest in the development of total-body PET scanners.
Two platforms have so-far been developed, the uEXPLORER and PennPET EXPLORER …