Development and evaluation of a proof-of-concept prototype time-of-flight PET system based on high quantum efficiency multi-anode PMTs

JW Son, HS Yoon, JY Won, KY Kim, MS Lee, GB Ko… - 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
432 Objectives We evaluated a proof-of-concept prototype time-of-flight (TOF) PET system
(average coincident resolving time= 340 ps) based on a high quantum efficiency (QE) multi …

Proof‐of‐concept prototype time‐of‐flight PET system based on high‐quantum‐efficiency multianode PMT s

JW Son, KY Kim, HS Yoon, JY Won, GB Ko… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Time‐of‐flight (TOF) information in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners
enhances the diagnostic power of PET scans owing to the increased signal‐to‐noise ratio of …

A high-resolution time-of-flight clinical PET detection system using the PMT-quadrant-sharing technology

WH Wong, H Li, Y Zhang, R Ramirez, H Baghaei, S An… - 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
657 Objectives The objective is to improve PET imaging resolution, detection sensitivity and
timing resolution of PET at lower cost and to test the engineering feasibility and imaging …

Simultaneous emission and transmission imaging for PET-MRI using time-of-flight information

P Mollet, V Keereman, S Vandenberghe - 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
124 Objectives Attenuation correction is one of the major challenges in the development of
simultaneous PET-MR scanners. Predicting attenuation values from MR images is difficult …

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) …

Investigation of a multi-anode microchannel plate PMT for time-of-flight PET

WS Choong - IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on an investigation of a mulit-anode microchannel plate PMT for time-of-flight PET
detector modules. The primary advantages of an MCP lie in its excellent timing properties …

Impact of time-of-flight PET/CT with a large axial field of view for reducing whole-body acquisition time

G Akamatsu, K Uba, T Taniguchi… - Journal of nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this study was to evaluate the imaging performance of 39-and 52-ring time-of-
flight (TOF) PET/CT scanners. We also assessed the potential of reducing the scanning time …

Introducing time-of-flight and resolution recovery image reconstruction to clinical whole-body PET parametric imaging

NA Karakatsanis, MA Lodge… - 2014 Ieee Nuclear …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We recently proposed a dynamic multi-bed acquisition scheme enabling whole-body FDG
PET parametric imaging from limited axial field-of-view PET/CT scanners in clinically …

[PDF][PDF] Image improvement and design optimization of the time-of-flight PET

WH Wong, NA Mullani, EA Philippe… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1983 - Soc Nuclear Med
Under the ideal situation of infinite counting statis tics, a properly designed positron
emission tomograph (PET) could reconstruct an accurate two-dimensional image. Under …

Studies of a next-generation silicon-photomultiplier–based time-of-flight PET/CT system

DFC Hsu, E Ilan, WT Peterson, J Uribe… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
This article presents system performance studies for the Discovery MI PET/CT system, a new
time-of-flight system based on silicon photomultipliers. System performance and clinical …