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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 2008 Jun 1;55(3):862–869. doi: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922832

TABLE II.

Comparison of Detector Specifications Between commercial PET Systems and this PQS-LYSO detector development

Human body PET detectors
Commercial PET vs. PQS-PET
System Ref
[X]
Crystal
Type
Crystal Pixel
size (mm3)
Block /
Module
matrix
PMT
size
(mm)
Decoding
Resolution
crystals per
PMT
Discovery
-STE-
[14] BGO 5 ×6 × 30 8 × 6 19 12
Biography
-64-
[15] LSO 4 × 4 × 20 13 ×13 26 42
Gemini [16]
[17]
GSO 4 × 6 × 20 22 ×29 39 42
PQS-PET LSO 3.25×3.25×20 15 ×15 51 225
Animal PET Detectors
Commercial PET VS. PQS-PET
Inveon
-Siemens-
[18] LSO 1.6 × 1.6 × 10 20 × 20 PS-PMT *
“Lab-PET” [19] LYSO
and
LGSO
2 × 2 × 10 4× 2
48
modules
APD 1
“JPET” [20] GSO 2.9 × 2.9 × 7.5 16 × 16 PS-PMT 256 × 4
layers
PQS-PET LYSO 1.27×1.27×10 14 ×14 19 196
*

Parameter not available or not applicable for the system.