A virtual-pinhole PET device for improving contrast recovery and enhancing lesion detectability of a one-meter-long PET scanner: a simulation study.
Published in Physics in Medicine & Biology, Volume 68, Number 14, 2023
Recommended citation: Jiang, J., Hua, J., Wang, H., Yuan, Z., Meng, Y., Lu, H., ... & Tai, Y. C. (2023). "A virtual-pinhole PET device for improving contrast recovery and enhancing lesion detectability of a one-meter-long PET scanner: a simulation study." Physics in Medicine and Biology.. 68(14). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/acdfaf
This paper presents a simulation study to demonstrate that the contrast recovery coefficients (CRC) and detectability of small lesions of a one-meter-long positron emission tomography (PET) scanner can be further enhanced by the integration of high resolution virtual-pinhole (VP) PET devices.