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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2011 Jan;52(1):154–161. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.110.079343

TABLE 1.

BrainPET scanner characteristics

Characteristic Value
Scintillator Crystal material LSO
Crystal size (mm3) 2.5×2.5×20
Crystals per detector block 12×12
Photon detector Hamamatsu APD 8664-55
Size (mm2) 5×5
APDs per detector block 3×3
System No. of detector blocks 192
No. of crystals 27,648
Axial FOV (cm) 19.25
Transaxial FOV (cm) 32
Gantry inner diameter (cm) 36
Gantry outer diameter (cm) 60
Dataset No. of LORs 226,934,784
No. of sinograms (3D) 1,399
Axial compression:
 span 9
 maximum ring difference 67
Sinogram size 256×192
Image size 256×256
No. of imaging planes 153
Recon. voxel size (mm3) 1.25×1.25×1.25