Published November 2003
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Journal article
From PET detectors to PET scanners
- 1. Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, NY 10021, New York (United States)
- 2. Physics Department, University of Wollongong, New South Wales (Australia)
- 3. Department of Physics ''E. Fermi'', University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy)
Description
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. (orig.)
Availability note (English)
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-003-1266-2Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- Journal Volume
- 30
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1574-1597
- ISSN
- 1619-7070
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 34084314
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SCANNERS; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNERS; REVIEWS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DOCUMENT TYPES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY