Currently there is no shortage of challenges and opportunities for PET instrumentation and quantitative imaging techniques. Molecular imaging technologies are leading to a revolutionary paradigm shift in health care and clinical practice. This issue reviews recent advances in PET instrumentation as well as volume correction strategies and strategies for motion tracking and correction, scatter compensation techniques, and attenuation correction techniques.
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Saunders
Release
March 21, 2007
ISBN
1416049886
ISBN 13
9781416049883
Instrumentation, An Issue of PET Clinics (The Clinics: Radiology)
Currently there is no shortage of challenges and opportunities for PET instrumentation and quantitative imaging techniques. Molecular imaging technologies are leading to a revolutionary paradigm shift in health care and clinical practice. This issue reviews recent advances in PET instrumentation as well as volume correction strategies and strategies for motion tracking and correction, scatter compensation techniques, and attenuation correction techniques.