From PET detectors to PET scanners.
This review describes the properties of available and emerging radiation detector and read-out technologies and discusses how they may affect PET scanner performance. After a general introduction, there is a section in which the physical properties of several different detector scintillators are compared. This is followed by a discussion of recent advances in read-out electronics. Finally, the physical performance of the several commercial PET scanners is summarized.
Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. hummj@mskcc.org
John L
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Humm
Anatoly
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Rosenfeld
Alberto
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Del Guerra
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D015902:Gamma Cameras / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D014159:Transducers / Q000639:trends*