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. 2021 Jan 25;11:10. doi: 10.1186/s13550-021-00751-4

Table 2.

Clinical parameters of PET/CT scanners

Scanner Gemini GXL Gemini TF64 IQ5 Ingenuity TF
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