PET instrumentation developer CPS Innovations has launched a new digital imaging chain that more than doubles the count-rate performance of the company’s LSO-based PET/CT scanners, according to the Knoxville, TN, company.
Pico-3D Processing features electronics specifically designed to take advantage of LSO detector material, which is faster and has higher light output than BGO scintillator material, according to CPS. Pico-3D more than doubles the count rate of LSO PET/CT scanners, and is especially useful for low-dose clinical oncology applications and for short-lived tracers used in cardiology and research.
Pico-3D digitizes the output from each LSO detector every 500 picoseconds, according to CPS. It also features 10-bit energy sampling, which improves system energy resolution, and uses a five-second coincidence window.
CPS manufactures PET systems that are sold by Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA; CTI Molecular Imaging of Knoxville; and Hitachi Medical Systems America of Twinsburg, OH.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersJuly 3, 2003
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