Hybrid total-body pet scanners—current status and future perspectives

V Nadig, K Herrmann, FM Mottaghy… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Since the 1990s, PET has been successfully combined with MR or CT systems. In
the past years, especially PET systems have seen a trend towards an enlarged axial field of …

Update on latest advances in time-of-flight PET

S Surti, JS Karp - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides an update on time-of-flight (TOF) PET with a focus on latest hardware
developments leading to current commercial PET/CT instruments. We describe advances in …

First human imaging studies with the EXPLORER total-body PET scanner

RD Badawi, H Shi, P Hu, S Chen, T Xu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
Within the EXPLORER Consortium, the construction of the world's first total-body PET/CT
scanner has recently been completed. The 194-cm axial field of view of the EXPLORER …

Total-body dynamic reconstruction and parametric imaging on the uEXPLORER

X Zhang, Z Xie, E Berg, MS Judenhofer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
The world's first 194-cm-long total-body PET/CT scanner (uEXPLORER) has been built by
the EXPLORER Consortium to offer a transformative platform for human molecular imaging …

Total-body PET and highly stable chelators together enable meaningful 89Zr-antibody PET studies up to 30 days after injection

E Berg, H Gill, J Marik, A Ogasawara… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
The use of 89Zr-antibody PET imaging to measure antibody biodistribution and tissue
pharmacokinetics is well established, but current PET systems lack the sensitivity needed to …

Development and initial results of a brain PET insert for simultaneous 7-Tesla PET/MRI using an FPGA-only signal digitization method

JY Won, H Park, S Lee, JW Son… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In study, we developed a positron emission tomography (PET) insert for simultaneous brain
imaging within 7-Tesla (7T) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scanners. The PET insert …

NEMA NU2-2012 performance measurements of the United Imaging uPMR790: an integrated PET/MR system

S Chen, Y Gu, H Yu, X Chen, T Cao, L Hu… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose In this paper, we aimed to evaluate the positron emission tomography (PET)
performance of, to the best of our knowledge, the third commercially available whole-body …

Photon counting detectors and their applications ranging from particle physics experiments to environmental radiation monitoring and medical imaging

R Ota - Radiological Physics and Technology, 2021 - Springer
Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have played essential
roles in various applications, such as fundamental particle physics experiments, nuclear …

Long axial field-of-view PET/CT could answer unmet needs in gynecological cancers

EKA Triumbari, V Rufini, C Mingels, A Rominger… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Recent advances in PET/CT technology led to the development of long-
axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT with the possibility of simultaneously scanning a large …

Evaluation of various scintillator materials in radiation detector design for positron emission tomography (PET)

S Xie, X Zhang, Y Zhang, G Ying, Q Huang, J Xu… - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The performance of radiation detectors used in positron-emission tomography (PET) is
determined by the intrinsic properties of the scintillators, the geometry and surface treatment …