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Table 3 NEMA NU 2-2012 performance characteristics

From: Performance evaluation of a new high-sensitivity time-of-flight clinical PET/CT system

  

FWHM

Spatial resolution (mm)

FBP

1 cm

Transverse

3.59

Axial

3.67

10 cm

Transverse radial

4.38

Transverse tangential

3.78

Axial

4.65

20 cm

Transverse radial

5.95

Transverse tangential

4.68

Axial

6.48

PSF-OSEM

1 cm

Transverse

1.41

Axial

1.68

10 cm

Transverse radial

1.67

Transverse tangential

2.07

Axial

2.3

20 cm

Transverse radial

1.81

Transverse tangential

2.11

Axial

2.32

Sensitivity (cps/kBq)

0 cm

 

10.7

10 cm

 

10.4

Scatter fraction

 

38.2%

Peak NECR

 

216.7 kcps at 29.1 kBq/ml

Peak trues

 

818.6 kcps at 38.2 kBq/ml