Sadek A Nehmeh
Sadek A Nehmeh
PET-CT scanners allow robust and synergistic fusion of anatomic and functional information, which has improved sensitivity, specificity, and enhancement in the value of PET and CT when assessing tumor response to therapy. Breathing motion a...
Motion-Tracking Hardware and Advanced Applications in PET and PET/CT [0.03%]
运动跟踪硬件及正电子发射断层扫描和正电子发射断层融合计算机断层扫描的高级应用
V Bettinardi,E De Bernardi,L Presotto et al.
V Bettinardi et al.
Respiratory and cardiac motions represent important sources of image degradation in both PET and computed tomography (CT) studies that need to be taken into account and compensated to improve image quality and quantitative accuracy. This re...
Julia Dinges,Stephan G Nekolla,Ralph A Bundschuh
Julia Dinges
Image quality in PET examinations is influenced by several factors. Patient motion during PET data acquisition is a substantial problem that potentially leads to smearing artifacts, resulting in the loss of diagnostic accuracy both in visua...
Vesna Sossi
Vesna Sossi
A review of recent advances in brain imaging using positron emission tomography (PET) is presented in this article. Some properties of the high-resolution research tomograph are described as examples of state-of-the-art PET instrumentation....
Alexander Hammers,Anne Lingford-Hughes
Alexander Hammers
Many breakthrough scientific discoveries have been made using opioid imaging. Developments include the application of ever higher resolution whole-brain positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, the availability of several radioligands, ...
Kimberly P Lindsey,S John Gatley
Kimberly P Lindsey
Recent technologic advances make it increasingly possible to image neurotransmitter systems in living human brain. The dopamine system has been most intensively studied owing to its involvement in several brain disorders, including motor di...
Colin P Derdeyn
Colin P Derdeyn
Positron emission tomography (PET) uniquely allows the in vivo regional measurement of several important physiologic parameters in living humans, including cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism. PET studies have advanced our understandi...
R Edward Coleman
R Edward Coleman
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of [18F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) is accurate in the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in the differentiation of AD from the other causes of dementia. FDG-PET imaging is avail...
Neuroimaging in Dementia [0.03%]
痴呆的神经影像学
Jennifer L Whitwell,Clifford R Jack Jr
Jennifer L Whitwell
Neuroimaging has become increasingly important in the clinical assessment and diagnosis of dementia. Structural imaging with MRI and functional imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography and single photon emission CT, increasi...
Homer A Macapinlac
Homer A Macapinlac
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a technique that allows imaging of the temporal and spatial distribution of positron-emitting radionuclides. The purpose of this article is to outline the current clinical use for PET imaging in the bra...