NEMA NU2-like performance evaluation of a helmet-type brain TOF-PET prototype

G Akamatsu, E Yoshida, H Tashima, Y Iwao… - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
192 Objectives: Brain PET imaging plays important roles in many fields such as neurology,
neuro-oncology, and molecular imaging research. To fulfill a growing demand for a high …

Helmet-type brain TOF-PET prototype: improved timing resolution and count rate performance by optimizing energy window

G Akamatsu, E Yoshida, H Tashima, Y Iwao… - 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
1500 Objectives: Brain PET is a powerful imaging tool to visualize various functions and
metabolism of the human brain. To make a high-sensitivity brain PET system with a limited …

Suitability of a 280 ps-CRT non-DOI detector for the helmet-neck PET

S Takyu, AM Ahmed, E Yoshida… - 2017 IEEE Nuclear …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We are developing a compact and high-sensitivity brain-dedicated PET scanner, which
consists of a hemispherically arranged detector unit and an add-on detector unit. Following …

Performance Evaluation of a Next-generation Human Brain PET Imager: the NeuroEXPLORER

H Li, R Badawi, S Cherry, K Fontaine, L He, L Hu… - 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
P801 Introduction: We (Yale, UC Davis, United Imaging) have successfully developed
NeuroEXPLORER (NX), a dedicated human brain PET/CT imager with high spatial …

Performance characterization of an SiPM-based time-of-flight Canon PET/CT scanner

X Li, W Qi, M Miyahara, J Kolthammer - 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
14 Introduction: The use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) as photosensors has enabled
novel PET detector designs with improved physical performance characteristics. We …

Performance evaluation of VRAIN: a brain-dedicated PET with a hemispherical detector arrangement

G Akamatsu, M Takahashi, H Tashima… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. For PET imaging systems, a smaller detector ring enables less intrinsic spatial
resolution loss due to the photon non-collinearity effect as well as better balance between …

Performance Evaluation of SIAT bPET: an MRI Compatible Brain PET Insert

Z Kuang, N Ren, Q Chen, Z Sang, X Wang, K Mungai… - 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
P169 Introduction: The aim of this work is to develop an MRI compatible human brain PET
scanner with uniform high spatial resolution and high sensitivity by using dual-ended …

Evaluation of a TOF resolution measurement method using standard NEMA NEC phantom

Y Mao, M Miller, C Bai, K Rodgers, S Lin, M Narayanan… - 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
436 Objectives: PET scanners with time-of flight (TOF) technique is quite common today and
the TOF resolution has become an important standard reflecting the performance of TOF …

Performance measurements of a novel mobile NeuroPET-CT

J Ouyang, M Keeler, A Bonab, X Zhu, T Brady… - 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
435 Objectives To evaluate the performance of the newly developed NeuroPET-CT based
on the NEMA standard. Methods NeuroPET-CT is a new dedicated brain PET-CT mobile …

Design and development of an MRI compatible human brain PET scanner by using dual-ended readout detectors

Z Kuang, Z Sang, X Wang, D Gao, N Ren, S Wu… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
1708 Objectives: Dual-modality PET/MRI imaging is a very powerful tool for brain imaging
since PET and MRI are important brain imaging tools and highly complementary. Dedicated …