Table 2.
Clinical parameters of PET/CT scanners
Scanner | Gemini GXL | Gemini TF64 | IQ5 | Ingenuity TF |
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Vendor | Philips | Philips | GE | Philips |
CT scanning | ||||
Tube voltage | 120 kV | 120 kV | 120 kV | 120 kV |
Effective tube | current auto-mA up to 120 mA | 100 mA | 12 ~ 390 mA (Smart mA: Noise Index 25) | 100 mA (variable by Dose Right) |
Detector configuration | 16 × 1.5 mm | 64 × 0.625 mm | 16 × 1.25 mm | 64 × 0.625 mm |
Slice thickness, mm | 2 | 2 | 3.75 | 2 |
Transverse FOV, mm | 600 | 600 | 700 | 600 |
PET scanning | ||||
2-[18F]FDG injection dose, MBq/kg | 4 | 3 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
Scan time for each bed, mm | 90 | 90 | 180 | 90 |
TOF | No | Yes | No | Yes |
PET reconstruction | ||||
Reconstruction | LOR-RAMLA | 3D-OSEM | 3D-OSEM + PSF + Q-clear | 3D-OSEM |
Iterations | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Subsets | n/a | 33 | 12 | 33 |
Smoothing | n/a | n/a | Gaussian | n/a |
FWHM of filter, mm | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.8 |
Matrix | 144 × 144 | 144 × 144 | 192 × 192 | 144 × 144 |
Pixel size, mm | 4 × 4 × 4 | 4 × 4 × 4 | 3.125 × 3.125 × 3.125 | 4 × 4 × 4 |
2-[18F]FDG: 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose, FWHM: full-width at half maximum, LOR-RAMLA: line-of-response row-action maximum likelihood algorithm, OSEM: ordered-subset expectation maximization, PSF: point spread function, TOF: time of flight