Recent developments in time-of-flight PET

S Vandenberghe, E Mikhaylova, E D'Hoe, P Mollet… - EJNMMI physics, 2016 - Springer
While the first time-of-flight (TOF)-positron emission tomography (PET) systems were already
built in the early 1980s, limited clinical studies were acquired on these scanners. PET was …

History and future technical innovation in positron emission tomography

T Jones, D Townsend - Journal of Medical Imaging, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Instrumentation for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has experienced
tremendous improvements in performance over the past 60 years since it was first conceived …

Performance measurements of the Siemens mMR integrated whole-body PET/MR scanner

G Delso, S Fürst, B Jakoby, R Ladebeck… - Journal of nuclear …, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
The recently released Biograph mMR is the first commercially available integrated whole-
body PET/MR scanner. There are considerable advantages to integrating both modalities in …

PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging

S Vandenberghe, PK Marsden - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an …

NEMA NU 2‐2012 performance studies for the SiPM‐based ToF‐PET component of the GE SIGNA PET/MR system

AM Grant, TW Deller, MM Khalighi… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The GE SIGNA PET/MR is a new whole body integrated time‐of‐flight (ToF)‐
PET/MR scanner from GE Healthcare. The system is capable of simultaneous PET and MR …

First clinical experience with integrated whole-body PET/MR: comparison to PET/CT in patients with oncologic diagnoses

A Drzezga, M Souvatzoglou, M Eiber… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
The recently introduced first integrated whole-body PET/MR scanner allows simultaneous
acquisition of PET and MRI data in humans and, thus, may offer new opportunities …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-centre evaluation of eleven clinically feasible brain PET/MRI attenuation correction techniques using a large cohort of patients

CN Ladefoged, I Law, U Anazodo, KS Lawrence… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
Aim To accurately quantify the radioactivity concentration measured by PET, emission data
need to be corrected for photon attenuation; however, the MRI signal cannot easily be …

A review of deep-learning-based approaches for attenuation correction in positron emission tomography

JS Lee - IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attenuation correction (AC) is essential for the generation of artifact-free and quantitatively
accurate positron emission tomography (PET) images. PET AC based on computed …

Clinical advances in PET–MRI for breast cancer

AM Fowler, RM Strigel - The Lancet Oncology, 2022 - thelancet.com
Imaging is paramount for the early detection and clinical staging of breast cancer, as well as
to inform management decisions and direct therapy. PET–MRI is a quantitative hybrid …

Design features and mutual compatibility studies of the time-of-flight PET capable GE SIGNA PET/MR system

CS Levin, SH Maramraju, MM Khalighi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A recent entry into the rapidly evolving field of integrated PET/MR scanners is presented in
this paper: a whole body hybrid PET/MR system (SIGNA PET/MR, GE Healthcare) capable …