State of the art in total body PET

Abstract The idea of a very sensitive positron emission tomography (PET) system covering a large portion of the body of a patient already dates back to the early 1990s. In the period 2000–2010, only some prototypes with long axial field of view (FOV) have been built, which never resulted in systems...

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Main Authors: Stefaan Vandenberghe, Pawel Moskal, Joel S. Karp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-05-01
Series:EJNMMI Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40658-020-00290-2