2013
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/03/c03005
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The MiniPET: a didactic PET system

Abstract: The MiniPET project aims to design and build a small PET system. It consists of two 4×4 matrices of 16 LYSO scintillator crystals and two PMTs with 16 channels resulting in a low cost system with the essential functionality of a clinical PET instrument. It is designed to illustrate the physics of the PET technique and to provide a didactic platform for the training of students and nuclear imaging professionals as well as for scientific outreach. The PET modules can be configured to test for the coincidence of … Show more

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“…The use of FPGA technology also enables the development of sophisticated digital pulse processing algorithms to improve energy, position and time resolutions in PET systems [15][16][17][18][19][20], which results in better image quality. For instance, improvements in energy and coincidence time resolutions, as required by Time of Flight (TOF) PET system [21,22] provides better precision at the positioning of the annihilation event along the Line of Response (LOR), enhancing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the reconstructed image.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of FPGA technology also enables the development of sophisticated digital pulse processing algorithms to improve energy, position and time resolutions in PET systems [15][16][17][18][19][20], which results in better image quality. For instance, improvements in energy and coincidence time resolutions, as required by Time of Flight (TOF) PET system [21,22] provides better precision at the positioning of the annihilation event along the Line of Response (LOR), enhancing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the reconstructed image.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%