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New Horizons in Brain PET Instrumentation

Magdelena S Allen1, Michele Scipioni2, Ciprian Catana2

  • 1Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

PET Clinics
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PubMed
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Dedicated brain PET scanners offer improved sensitivity and resolution at a lower cost than whole-body systems. Recent detector advancements have led to new standalone PET, PET/CT, and PET/MR systems for clinical and research use.

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Brain PETHigh sensitivityHigh spatial resolutionMultimodal imagingNeuroimagingPositron emission tomography

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