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ArticleFrontiers in nuclear medicine2025

First positronium lifetime imaging with scandium-44 on a long axial field-of-view PET/CT.

Lorenzo Mercolli, William M Steinberger, Pascal V Grundler, Anzhelika Moiseeva, Saverio Braccini, Maurizio Conti, Paweł Moskal, Narendra Rathod, Axel Rominger, Hasan Sari and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in nuclear medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Lorenzo MercolliDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
William M SteinbergerSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Knoxville, TN, United States.
Pascal V GrundlerCenter for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, PSI Center for Life Sciences, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.
Anzhelika MoiseevaCenter for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, PSI Center for Life Sciences, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.
Saverio BracciniAlbert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC), Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Maurizio ContiSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Knoxville, TN, United States.
Paweł MoskalFaculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Narendra RathodDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Axel RomingerDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Hasan SariDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Roger SchibliCenter for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, PSI Center for Life Sciences, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.
Robert SeifertDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Kuangyu ShiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Ewa Ł StepieńFaculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Nicholas P van der MeulenCenter for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, PSI Center for Life Sciences, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: The physical properties of Method: A NEMA image quality phantom was filled with 41.7 MBq of Results: All measured oPs lifetimes are compatible, within the uncertainties, with the literature values for water. The oPs lifetime is Conclusions: Despite the favorable physical properties of

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long axial field-of-view PET/CTNEMA phantompositroniumpositronium lifetime imagingscandium-44

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PMID41357528
PMCPMC12675369

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