Effect of increased axial field of view of on the performance of a volume PET scanner. [Positron Emission Tomography (PET)]

Conference · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6009923

Karp, J S; Kinahan, P E ^[1]; Muehllehner, G; Countryman, P ^[2]

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1. Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States). Dept. of Radiology
2. UGM Medical Systems, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (United States)

The performance of the PENN-PET 240H scanner from UGM Medical Systems is tested and compared to the prototype PENN-PET scanner built at the University of Pennsylvania. The UGM PENN-PET scanner consists of six continuous position-sensitive NaI(Tl) detectors, which results in a 50-cm transverse field-of-view and a 12.8-cm axial field-of-view. The fine spatial sampling in the axial direction allows the data to be sorted into as many as 64 transverse planes, each 2-mm thick. A large axial acceptance angle, without interplane septa, results in a high sensitivity, with a low scatter and randoms fraction, due to the use of a narrow photopeak energy window. This paper emphasizes those performance measurements that illustrate the special characteristics of a volume imaging scanner and how they change as the axial length is increased.

• Research Organization: Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States). Dept. of Radiology
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-88ER60642
• OSTI ID: 6009923
• Report Number(s): CONF-911106-34; ON: DE92004424
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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