Erschienen in:
23.08.2021 | Editorial
First clinical experience of 106 cm, long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT: an elegant balance between standard axial (23 cm) and total-body (194 cm) systems
verfasst von:
Xiaoli Lan, Muhsin H. Younis, Ke Li, Weibo Cai
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Ausgabe 12/2021
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Excerpt
Conventional PET/CT scanners with standard axial field-of-view (SAFOV) usually cover around 23–26 cm [
1,
2]. Over the last decade, however, there has been tremendous effort in the development of long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT scanners, and several of them have entered the clinical arena [
3‐
5]. It is well recognized that, with LAFOV PET/CT scanners, one could image better (e.g. reconstruct at higher resolution and detect smaller lesions), image faster, image longer after tracer injection, and image gently (e.g., at a much lower radiopharmaceutical dose than usual, which will enable more PET scans in the children population, as well as more repeated scans in the adult population) [
1]. …