SPECT Radiopharmaceuticals for Perfusion Imaging and Tumor and Inflammation Localization Gerrit Westera In this chapter, the SPECT radiopharmaceuticals frequently used in clinical practice are discussed. Three major classes can be…
11C-Based PET- Radiopharmaceuticals of Clinical Value Kjell Någren Christer Halldin Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with carbon 11 (11C) radiopharmaceuticals is challenging because of the short half-life of the radionuclide…
PET Radiopharmaceuticals: Perfusion Compounds [13N]Ammonia, [15O]Water, [82RB]Rubidium, and Other Generator Products of Clinical Relevance Simon M. Ametamey Peter Bläuenstein P. August Schubiger Cerebral and cardiac perfusion studies by PET provide…
PET Radiopharmaceuticals: Fluorinated Compounds Heinz H. Coenen Dedicated to Professor Dr. Dr. H.C. Christoph Reiners on the occasion of his 60th birthday. After short summaries of the basic features of…
A Primer in Compartment Modeling Cyrill Burger Alfred Buck The information contained in nuclear medicine images represents the average concentration of the tracer compound in tissue during the acquisition of…
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….
