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

• Published in: Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 68; no. 10; pp. 105012 - 105021
• Main Authors: Surti, Suleman, Werner, Matthew E, Karp, Joel S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 21.05.2023
• Subjects: BGO; Cerenkov timing; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Humans; image quality; LSO; Monte Carlo Method; Phantoms, Imaging; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; TB-PET; TOF; image quality; LSO; TOF; BGO; TB-PET; Cerenkov timing

. Current commercial positron emission tomography (PET) scanners have excellent performance and diagnostic image quality primarily due to improvements in scanner sensitivity and time-of-flight (TOF) resolution. Recent years have seen the development of total-body PET scanners with longer axial field...