PET/CT today and tomorrow

DW Townsend, JPJ Carney, JT Yap… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
Accurate anatomic localization of functional abnormalities seen with PET is known to be
problematic. Even though nonspecific tracers such as 18 F-FDG visualize certain normal …

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography

DW Townsend - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Accurate anatomical localization of functional abnormalities obtained with the use of
positron emission tomography (PET) is known to be problematic. Although tracers such as …

PET/CT imaging: facts, opinions, hopes, and questions

J Czernin, H Schelbert - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
Dual-modality PET/CT, as the most comprehensive diagnostic tool in oncologic imaging, has
invigorated nuclear medicine and attracted radiology's interest. The nuclear medicine …

PET/CT scanner instrumentation, challenges, and solutions

AM Alessio, PE Kinahan, PM Cheng… - Radiologic …, 2004 - radiologic.theclinics.com
PET radiotracer imaging with the labeled glucose analogue [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)
is increasingly being used in oncology imaging because of its usefulness in detecting and …

Technology Insight: advances in molecular imaging and an appraisal of PET/CT scanning

WA Weber, AL Grosu, J Czernin - Nature Clinical Practice Oncology, 2008 - nature.com
PET/CT imaging has rapidly emerged as an important imaging tool in oncology. The
success of PET/CT imaging is based on several features. First, patients benefit from a …

PET/CT: Form and Function1

TM Blodgett, CC Meltzer, DW Townsend - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is playing an increasingly
important role in the diagnosis and staging of malignant disease, image-guided therapy …

PET versus SPECT: strengths, limitations and challenges

A Rahmim, H Zaidi - Nuclear medicine communications, 2008 - journals.lww.com
The recent introduction of high-resolution molecular imaging technology is considered by
many experts as a major breakthrough that will potentially lead to a revolutionary paradigm …

Acquisition protocol considerations for combined PET/CT imaging

T Beyer, G Antoch, S Müller, T Egelhof… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
Since its introduction in 1998, dual-modality PET/CT imaging has received great attention in
the medical community. For the first time, patients can be examined with both CT and PET in …

[PDF][PDF] A combined PET/CT scanner for clinical oncology

T Beyer, DW Townsend, T Brun… - Journal of nuclear …, 2000 - Soc Nuclear Med
The availability of accurately aligned, whole-body anatomical (CT) and functional (PET)
images could have a significant impact on diagnosing and staging malignant disease and …

Novel detector technology for clinical PET

R Lecomte - European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2009 - Springer
Introduction Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive of all medical imaging
modalities for quantitatively probing biologic processes at the molecular level. However …