Characterization of 0.5-mm lutetium oxyorthosilicate detector arrays for high-resolution PET applications

AA Refaey, MS Judenhofer… - 2016 IEEE Nuclear …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We previously built a high-resolution PET scanner (PawPET) using 8 mm thick Lutetium
Oxyorthosilicate (LSO) detectors, but it suffers from poor sensitivity. From our prior work we …

A prototype PET scanner with hybrid DOI-encoding detectors

MGB Sumanasena, Q Peng, F Godinez… - 2015 IEEE Nuclear …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
POSITRON emission tomography (PET) is used in assessing therapy response, staging, and
restaging of breast cancer [1]. However, whole-body PET scanners are not ideally suited to …