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A major goal of the PET studies is to obtain a good quality and detailed image of an object by the PET scanner, and so it depends on how well the scanner performs in image formation. Several parameters associated with the scanner are critical to good quality image formation, which include spatial resolution, sensitivity, noise, scattered radiations, and contrast. These parameters are interdependent, and if one parameter is improved, one or more of the others are compromised. A description of these parameters is given below.
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Saha, G.B. (2010). Performance Characteristics of PET Scanners. In: Basics of PET Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0805-6_6
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