Fig. 5.1 Reduction of the artifacts present around the bladder in non-TOF reconstruction. Reprinted from [1] with permission of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Current commercial TOF-PET systems partially address…
Fig. 2.1 An old image showing the distribution of function in a normal thyroid gland measured with 131I The clinical scene in nuclear medicine today is hybrid imaging. It is…
Fig. 10.1 Reconstruction of a phantom slice using two different sampling schemes which are supplementary to each other (panels (a) and (b), respectively). In the standard reconstruction, this would still…
Fig. 4.1 Example of a report page of a rest/stress myocardial perfusion study using 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT. The report shows the images reoriented according to the cardiac axis (short cardiac axis…
Fig. 12.1 Properties (resolution and sensitivity) of various medical imaging methods Although noise is a problem in all medical imaging applications, it is prominent in medical imaging using ionizing radiation…
9. De Beenhouwer J, Staelens S, Vandeberghe S, Lemahieu I (2008) Acceleration of GATE SPECT simulations. Med Phys 35:1476–1485PubMedCrossRef 10. Bronnikov AV (2000) Reconstruction of attenuation map using discrete consistency…
Fig. 18.1 Comparison of magnetic resonance and computed and SPECT tomography images Nuclear medicine has become ingrained into the arsenal of diagnostic means of modern pediatric establishments. Its distinctive feature…
Fig. 5.1 99mTC-HMPAO brain death scintigraphy in a 16-year-old female with cardiac arrest and clinically brain death. There was no evidence of brain perfusion on perfusion images (a). No cerebral…
Fig. 14.1 Rhabdomyosarcoma. This patient presented with severe back pain, which proved to be secondary to metastatic RMS. Clinical work-up led to an FDG PET/CT (a–i). The MIP image (a)…
Fig. 8.1 99mTc-MDP scan. (a): Whole-body anterior and posterior views of a 10-year-old male. Left leg correctly positioned shows well-defined tibia and fibula; right leg slightly extra rotated, due to…
