Impact of time-of-flight PET/CT with a large axial field of view for reducing whole-body acquisition time

G Akamatsu, K Uba, T Taniguchi… - Journal of nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this study was to evaluate the imaging performance of 39-and 52-ring time-of-
flight (TOF) PET/CT scanners. We also assessed the potential of reducing the scanning time …

Performance of Philips Gemini TF PET/CT scanner with special consideration for its time-of-flight imaging capabilities

S Surti, A Kuhn, ME Werner, AE Perkins… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
Results from a new PET/CT scanner using lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) crystals
for the PET component are presented. This scanner, which operates in a fully 3-dimensional …

Update on time-of-flight PET imaging

S Surti - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
Time-of-flight (TOF) PET was initially introduced in the early days of PET. The TOF PET
scanners developed in the 1980s had limited sensitivity and spatial resolution, were …

[PDF][PDF] Image improvement and design optimization of the time-of-flight PET

WH Wong, NA Mullani, EA Philippe… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1983 - Soc Nuclear Med
Under the ideal situation of infinite counting statis tics, a properly designed positron
emission tomograph (PET) could reconstruct an accurate two-dimensional image. Under …

Performance measurements of a whole body PET/CT system with time-of-flight capability

B Kemp, J Williams, R Ruter, V Lowe, B Mullan - 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
1546 Objectives Performance measurements were conducted on a GE Healthcare
Discovery 690 whole body PET/CT system with time-of-flight (TOF) capability. The PET …

Investigation of time-of-flight benefit for fully 3-DPET

S Surti, S Karp, LM Popescu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this paper is to determine the benefit that can be achieved in image quality
for a time-of-flight (TOF) fully three-dimensional (3-D) whole-body positron emission …

The assessment of time-of-flight on image quality and quantification with reduced administered activity and scan times in 18F-FDG PET

IS Armstrong, JM James, HA Williams… - Nuclear medicine …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The last decade has seen considerable technological innovations in PET
detectors with the availability, among other advances, of time-of-flight (TOF). TOF has been …

Dynamic whole-body 18F-FDG PET for minimizing patient motion artifact

T Kaji, K Osanai, T Nakata, N Tamaki - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Recent PET/CT systems permit short acquisition with acceptable image quality. In addition,
continuous-bed-motion mode is available for whole-body PET imaging with some PET …

Progress on the EXPLORER project: towards a total body PET scanner for human imaging

R Badawi, W Liu, E Berg, Y Lv, T Xu, S An, Y Dong… - 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
223 Objectives: Long axial field of view PET for humans offers the promise of a step-change
in molecular imaging research and clinical practice. The EXPLORER Consortium is …

Total-body PET: maximizing sensitivity to create new opportunities for clinical research and patient care

SR Cherry, T Jones, JS Karp, J Qi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET is widely considered the most sensitive technique available for noninvasively studying
physiology, metabolism, and molecular pathways in the living human being. However, the …