TY - GEN
T1 - A prototype PET scanner with hybrid DOI-encoding detectors
AU - Sumanasena, M. G.Buddika
AU - Peng, Qiyu
AU - Godinez, Felipe
AU - Burkett, George
AU - Ferrero, Andrea
AU - Chaudhari, Abhijit J.
AU - Badawi, Ramsey D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/10/3
Y1 - 2016/10/3
N2 - POSITRON emission tomography (PET) is used in assessing therapy response, staging, and restaging of breast cancer [1]. However, whole-body PET scanners are not ideally suited to breast imaging due to low geometric sensitivity, low spatial resolution and signal loss due to attenuation in the body. Several groups are working on dedicated breast imaging systems to overcome such limitations[2][3]. Due to the typically smaller field of view (FOV), detectors capable of measuring depth of interaction (DOI) can yield better performance in dedicated breast PET scanners. A high resolution positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner that uses DOI encoding detectors and is dedicated for human breast imaging is currently been developed in our laboratory. This paper presents the design and implementation of a prototype of the PET component of the aforementioned scanner.
AB - POSITRON emission tomography (PET) is used in assessing therapy response, staging, and restaging of breast cancer [1]. However, whole-body PET scanners are not ideally suited to breast imaging due to low geometric sensitivity, low spatial resolution and signal loss due to attenuation in the body. Several groups are working on dedicated breast imaging systems to overcome such limitations[2][3]. Due to the typically smaller field of view (FOV), detectors capable of measuring depth of interaction (DOI) can yield better performance in dedicated breast PET scanners. A high resolution positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner that uses DOI encoding detectors and is dedicated for human breast imaging is currently been developed in our laboratory. This paper presents the design and implementation of a prototype of the PET component of the aforementioned scanner.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7582207
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7582207
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84994246758
T3 - 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2015
BT - 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2015
Y2 - 31 October 2015 through 7 November 2015
ER -