Performance of Philips Gemini TF PET/CT scanner with special consideration for its time-of-flight imaging capabilities.

By S. Surti, A. Kuhn, M. Werner, A. Perkins, J. Kolthammer, J. Karp. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2007

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Recent developments in time-of-flight PET (2016, methodology): “The scanner electronics is based on the electronics of Philips Gemini TF PET/CT [11], but with necessary changes for the performance in the vicinity of strong magnetic fields (3T).”
Benefit of Time-of-Flight in PET: Experimental and Clinical Results (2008, background): “We showed earlier (14) that phantom and patient data have the same relationship of noise equivalent count rate versus size and that these phantom sizes can be used to represent patients ranging from 40 to 100 kg.”
Recent developments in PET detector technology (2008, methodology): “Some designs use different dopants in LSO, LYSO or GSO to change the decay times enough to utilize the pulse shape discrimination approach.”
New technologies for human cancer imaging. (2008, background): “Practical benefits of this performance improvement include achieving cancer detection, which would otherwise fall below the detection threshold, in large patients.(49)”
State of the art in total body PET (2020, background): “A third example is the introduction of TOF [25, 60], which was also adopted in a short period and is now also present in nearly all new PET-CT scanners [16, 66] and the most recent PET-MR systems.”