MO‐E‐342‐01: Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation

Nuclear Medicine instrumentation continues to progress, both hardware and software. Advances in PET/CT include increased PET sensitivity, respiratory gating, time of flight measurement, and improved image reconstruction algorithms that encorporate more physical effects into the acquisition model. Ga...

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Published in:Medical Physics 2008-06, Vol.35 (6), p.2880-2880
Main Author: Turkington, T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical modeling
Cameras
Computed tomography
Detector materials
Medical image quality
Medical image reconstruction
Nuclear medicine imaging
Single photon emission computed tomography
Time measurement
Time of flight mass spectrometry
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Summary:Nuclear Medicine instrumentation continues to progress, both hardware and software. Advances in PET/CT include increased PET sensitivity, respiratory gating, time of flight measurement, and improved image reconstruction algorithms that encorporate more physical effects into the acquisition model. Gamma cameras are incorporating new detector materials, and SPECT is being done with new acquisition geometries and reconstructed with new algorithms. We will discuss new developments in nuclear medicine instrumentation, including ones that are currently available commercially and ones that are on the horizon. Educational Objectives: 1. Understand three new developments in PET that have the potential to improve image quality. 2. Understand how new detector materials allow new acquisition geometries for SPECT. 3. Understand how physic effects in the acquisition process can be modeled in the image reconstruction process. Research sponsored by GE Healthcare.
ISSN:0094-2405
2473-4209
DOI:10.1118/1.2962407