First clinical experience of 106 cm, long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT: an elegant balance between standard axial (23 cm) and total-body (194 cm) systems

Xiaoli Lan^{1

2}, Muhsin H Younis³, Ke Li³, Weibo Cai⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. xiaoli_lan@hust.edu.cn.
² Hubei Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, China. xiaoli_lan@hust.edu.cn.
³ Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
⁴ Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. wcai@uwhealth.org.

Editorial

Xiaoli Lan et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;48(12):3755-3759.

doi: 10.1007/s00259-021-05505-x.

Xiaoli Lan^{1

2}, Muhsin H Younis³, Ke Li³, Weibo Cai⁴

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. xiaoli_lan@hust.edu.cn.
² Hubei Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, China. xiaoli_lan@hust.edu.cn.
³ Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
⁴ Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. wcai@uwhealth.org.

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Conflict of interest statement

Weibo Cai is a scientific advisor, stockholder, and grantee of Focus-X Therapeutics, Inc. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.

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