Quantifying PET
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Basics of PET Scanning
Basics of PET Scanning Cyrill Burger David W. Townsend Positron emission tomography (PET) involves the administration to a patient of a radioactive, positron-emitting nuclide, which tags a biomolecule specific to…
Basics of SPECT Scanning: Emission and Transmission
Basics of SPECT Scanning: Emission and Transmission Timothy G. Turkington David R. Gilland Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging provides cross-sectional images of the distributions of single-photon-emitting radiotracers. In all…
Radiation Sources for Emission Scanning: Positron and Gamma Emission
Radiation Sources for Emission Scanning: Positron and Gamma Emission Cyrill Burger Alfred Pfeiffer Nuclear medicine is based on pharmaceuticals labeled with a suitable radioactive isotope. After such a radiopharmaceutical has…
