Scanner Design Considerations for Long Axial Field-of-View PET Systems

Overview

Journal PET Clin

Specialty Radiology

Date 2020 Nov 8

PMID 33160929

Citations 4

Authors

Margaret E Daube-Witherspoon

Simon R Cherry

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Abstract

This article describes aspects of PET scanner design for long axial field-of-view systems and how these choices have an impact on scanner performance.

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