Initial performance evaluation of a preclinical PET scanner available as a clip-on assembly in a sequential PET/MRI system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2018, Pages

  Vrigneaud, J M ^a   McGrath, J ^b   Courteau, A ^a,d   Pegg, R ^b   Gomis, A Sanchez Pastor ^b   Camacho, A ^b   Martin, G ^b   Schramm, N ^c   Brunotte, F ^a,d  

^a Georges Francois Leclerc Cancer Center   (France)

^b MR Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

performance evaluation; PET MR imaging; preclinical PET; SiPM detectors; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SILICON DETECTORS;

DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TEMPERATURE STABILITY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGING PHANTOM; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85049374893     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aac4f7     Document Type: Article

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