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Performance Characteristics of the NeuroEXPLORER, a Next-Generation Human Brain PET/CT Imager
Li H, Badawi R, Cherry S, Fontaine K, He L, Henry S, Hillmer A, Hu L, Khattar N, Leung E, Li T, Li Y, Liu C, Liu P, Lu Z, Majewski S, Matuskey D, Morris E, Mulnix T, Omidvari N, Samanta S, Selfridge A, Sun X, Toyonaga T, Volpi T, Zeng T, Jones T, Qi J, Carson R. Performance Characteristics of the NeuroEXPLORER, a Next-Generation Human Brain PET/CT Imager. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2024, 65: jnumed.124.267767. PMID: 38871391, PMCID: PMC11294061, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.124.267767.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPeak noise-equivalent count rateNoise-equivalent count rateTime-of-flight resolutionField of viewCount rateExtended axial field-of-viewTransverse field-of-viewAxial field-of-viewField-of-view centerMini-Derenzo phantomSpatial resolutionTangential spatial resolutionsCount rate performanceContrast recovery coefficientHuman brain PET imagingMeasurements of spatial resolutionNEMA sensitivityEnergy resolutionScatter fractionBrain phantomBackprojection reconstructionBrain PET imagingTime resolutionRadial offsetF-FDG imaging
2013
List-mode reconstruction for the FOCUS-220 with motion correction and spatially-variant probability density functions: Application to awake monkey imaging
Jin X, Jian Y, Mulnix T, Sandiego C, Yao R, Carson R. List-mode reconstruction for the FOCUS-220 with motion correction and spatially-variant probability density functions: Application to awake monkey imaging. 2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 2013, 2985-2990. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2012.6551682.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvent motion correctionIntra-frame motionMotion correctionMotion correction methodRadial offsetLarge motionEntire FOVFrame methodSpatial resolutionRadial resolutionProbability density functionCorrection methodTangential resolutionPoint sourcesMotionResolution kernelsHigh-quality imagesReconstruction algorithmList-mode reconstruction algorithmDensity functionList-mode reconstructionFOV