Abstract
Recent developments in molecular imaging have led to increases in the performance and area of utilization of positron emission tomography (PET) systems. There are several ways that PET system sensitivity can be increased including changing the scanner's geometry. I recently proposed a novel PET design with adjustable field of view (FOV) to improve the system sensitivity up to 40 times higher than the conventional systems, depending on the size of the transaxial FOV. This study aims to evaluate the spatial resolution characteristics of the proposed design. Geant4-based Architecture for Medicine Oriented Simulations (GAMOS) toolkit was used to simulate the system. The proposed PET geometry was designed to cover and scan the full-body of the patient in one bed position. The spatial resolution tests were conducted using a point like source placed at different locations throughout the FOV when the transaxial FOV of the scanner was changed from 70 cm to 30 cm. The results showed that the spatial resolution slightly degrades when the FOV is reduced.
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