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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2017 Feb 27;62(6):2465–2485. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa5e46

Table 3.

Comparison of the three scan protocols

Scan protocol 4BR single-bed 4BR multi-bed 36BR

# of block rings 4 4 36
# of crystal rings 60 60 540
# of bed positions 1 33 1
axial FOV 21.55 cm 197 cm 197 cm
# counts in total 80M (MBRD=3) 58M (MBRD=3) 3.17B (MBRD=20)
Total scan time 20 minutes 20 minutes 20 minutes