Numerical investigation of a transformable modular PET system: Consideration of point-spread functions, module arrangements, and operation protocols

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful tool for mapping the dynamic distribution of substances in visually opaque systems. A modular, scalable, transformable, and relocatable PET system is custom built to provide optimized flexible PET imaging for a wider variety of applications. In coordination with the purposely designed hardware, we develop adaptive data processing and image reconstruction pipelines. We perform Monte Carlo...