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.
Humm
John L
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Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. hummj@mskcc.org
Rosenfeld
Anatoly
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Del Guerra
Alberto
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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*