Radiopharmaceuticals for Clinical PET, PET-CT, and SPECT-CT Imaging Gustav K. von Schulthess Designing good radiopharmaceuticals for imaging is a more difficult task than one might think. It is therefore not…
Introduction SPECT and PET imaging require radiation sources and systems that can detect the radiation emanating from these sources. In Part I, the technical basis of PET-CT and SPECT-CT imaging…
Quantifying SPECT David R. Gilland Timothy G. Turkington Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) produces images that represent the distribution of radionuclides in the body. The accuracy with which the images…
Quantifying PET Cyrill Burger Alfred Buck Although subjective reading of positron emission tomography (PET) images is still the basis of clinical diagnosis, strategies to extract quantitative information of disease processes…
Image Coregistration and Coregistered Image Rendering Cyrill Burger There is a growing need to compare medical images of the same organs viewed on different modalities or acquired under different conditions….
Radiation Doses and Radiation Protection Alfred Pfeiffer Cyrill Burger Positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and computed tomography (CT) use ionizing radiation, and therefore when these examinations…
CT-Based Attentuation Correction for PET-CT Scanners Jonathan P. J. Carney David W. Townsend In dual-modality PET-CT tomographs, the PET emission data can be routinely corrected for photon-attenuation effects by using…
CT-Based Attenuation Correction for SPECT Timothy G. Turkington David R. Gilland The addition of x-ray computed tomography (CT) to a conventional single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) system allows attenuation correction…
Basics of CT Scanning and Issues Relevant to Integrated Imaging Willi A. Kalender X-ray computed tomography (CT) has evolved to be one of the most important imaging modalities due to…
Design Criteria for PET Scanners: What is Important and Why Charles Stearns Alexander Tokman Positron emission tomography (PET) image quality is a function of scanner resolution and the statistical quality…
