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A second‐generation virtual‐pinhole PET device for enhancing contrast recovery and improving lesion detectability of a whole‐body PET/CT scanner

Jiang et al., 2019

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17291501663312056361
Author
Jiang J
Li K
Wang Q
Puterbaugh K
Young J
Siegel S
O'Sullivan J
Tai Y
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Medical physics

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Purpose We have developed a second‐generation virtual‐pinhole (VP) positron emission tomography (PET) device that can position a flat‐panel PET detector around a patient's body using a robotic arm to enhance the contrast recovery coefficient (CRC) and detectability of …
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