The image quality evaluation with various maximum unit difference of the first total-body uEXPLORER scanner

Z Deng, Y Ding, Y Lv, Y Dong - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
389 Objectives: The world first total-body uEXPLORER scanner, which is produced by
Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare, can be able to provide the clinical imaging in a single …

A comparison of image quality with uMI780 and the first total-body uEXPLORER scanner

Z Deng, D Hu, Y Ding, Y Dong - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
381 Objectives: The uMI780 and the first total-body uEXPLORER scanner which are
produced by Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare are both based on the SiPM detectors …

Development and evaluation of penalized image reconstruction for the total-body EXPLORER

X Zhang, R Badawi, S Cherry, J Qi - 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
1773 Objectives: The EXPLORER consortium is building a 194-cm axial field of view total-
body PET scanner to create new opportunities for biomedical research and clinical …

Phantom-based Y-90 whole-body PET image quality evaluation

K Zeimpekis, L Mercolli, G Prenosil, H Sari, K Shi… - 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
3295 Introduction: The purpose of the study was to characterize the performance of a whole
body PET scanner using yttrium-90 (Y-90) in a standard NEMA IEC body phantom. Y-90 …

EARL compliance test of the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner

X Meng, X Kong, R Wu, Z Yang - 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
P515 Introduction: With an unprecedented axial field of view (AFOV) of 194 cm, the
commercialized PET/CT scanner UIH uExplorer has been equipped in many PET centers in …

Image Quality evaluation of analytic reconstruction algorithms for long axial field-of-view PET scanner

Y Zhao, Z Deng, Y Lv, D Hu, Y Ding, Y Dong - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
240 Objectives: Analytic reconstruction algorithm such as Filtered backprojection (FBP) was
computationally efficient and considered to be quantitatively accurate for PET imaging …

Impact of sensitivity map and noise equivalent counts on hyper-parameter selection for regularized image reconstruction

H Xie, Y Lv, Y Dong - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
454 Objectives: PET images are severely contaminated by Poisson noise due to low
sensitivity of PET scanner and limited acquisition time in clinical use. Penalized or …

Effects of injected dose, BMI and scanner type on NECR and image noise in PET imaging

T Chang, G Chang, S Kohlmyer, JW Clark… - Physics in medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Noise equivalent count rate (NECR) and image noise are two different but related metrics
that have been used to predict and assess image quality, respectively. The aim of this study …

Evaluation of PET Image Quality Using Non-Conventional Isotopes

J Bryan, J Lunceford, B Bai - 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
1516 Introduction: Recently many radiopharmaceuticals labelled using non-18 F isotopes
have been developed (eg, 64 Cu, 68 Ga, 89 Zr, 90 Y and 124 I), some of which have great …

Performance evaluation of the uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT scanner based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with additional tests to characterize PET scanners with a long …

BA Spencer, E Berg, JP Schmall… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
The world's first total-body PET scanner with an axial field of view (AFOV) of 194 cm is now
in clinical and research use at our institution. The uEXPLORER PET/CT system is the first …