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…
Introduction
Introduction Gustav von Schulthess The rapid adoption of positron emission tomography (PET) within the framework of the combined use of PET and computed tomography (CT), or PET-CT, has been astounding….
Introduction
Introduction In this first part, the physical and technical aspects of positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), computed tomography (CT), and their integrated forms are discussed. The…
