Dual-modality PET/CT instrumentation-Today and tomorrow

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 452-460

  Lonsdale, Markus Nowak ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^b,c,d  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b cmi experts   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; PET; PET CT; PET MRI; Review

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CLINICAL ONCOLOGY; COMBINED PET/CT; COMBINED SYSTEM; DUAL-MODALITY; IMAGING MODALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; WHOLE-BODY;

INSTRUMENTS; ONCOLOGY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77949541610     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.12.021     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Gambhir S.S., Czernin J., Schwimmer J., Silverman D.H., Coleman R.E., and Phelps M.E. A tabulated summary of the FDG PET literature. J Nucl Med 42 5 Suppl. (2001) 1S-93S
2. Townsend D.W. Multimodality imaging of structure and function. Phys Med Biol 53 4 (2008) R1-R39
3. Czernin J., Allen-Auerbach M., and Schelbert H.R. Improvements in cancer staging with PET/CT: literature-based evidence as of September 2006. J Nucl Med 48 Suppl. 1 (2007) 78S-88S
4. Bischof Delaloye A., Carrió I., Cuocolo A., et al. White paper of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR) on multimodality imaging. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 34 8 (2007) 1147-1151
5. Humm J.L., Rosenfeld A., and Del Guerra A. From PET detectors to PET scanners. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 30 11 (2003) 1574-1597
6. Kinahan P.E., Hasegawa B.H., and Beyer T. X-ray-based attenuation correction for positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners. Semin Nucl Med 33 3 (2003) 166-179
7. Wahl R.L., Quint L.E., Cieslak R.D., Aisen A.M., Koeppe R.A., and Meyer C.R. "Anatometabolic" tumor imaging: fusion of FDG PET with CT or MRI to localize foci of increased activity. J Nucl Med 34 7 (1993) 1190-1197
8. Slomka P.J., Dey D., Przetak C., Aladl U.E., and Baum R.P. Automated 3-dimensional registration of stand-alone (18)F-FDG whole-body PET with CT. J Nucl Med 44 7 (2003) 1156-1167
9. Townsend D.W., Beyer T., Kinahan P.E., et al. The SMART scanner: a combined PET/CT tomograph for clinical oncology. Proceedings of the nuclear science symposium: IEEE (1998) 1170-1174
10. Hasegawa B., Gingold E., Reilly S., and Cann C. Description of a simultaneous emission-transmission CT system. Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) (1990) 50-60
11. Charron M., Beyer T., Bohnen N.N., et al. Image analysis in patients with cancer studied with a combined PET and CT scanner. Clin Nucl Med 25 11 (2000) 905-910
12. Kluetz P.G., Meltzer C.C., Villemagne V.L., et al. Combined PET/CT imaging in oncology. Impact on patient management. Clin Positron Imaging 3 6 (2000) 223-230
13. Kinahan P.E., Townsend D.W., Beyer T., and Sashin D. Attenuation correction for a combined 3D PET/CT scanner. Med Phys 25 10 (1998) 2046-2053
14. Sureshbabu W., and Mawlawi O. PET/CT imaging artifacts. J Nucl Med Technol 33 3 (2005) 156-161 quiz 63-4
15. Geworski L., Karwath C., Zander A., Amthauer H., and Plotkin M. Verification of co-registration accuracy of PET/CT [Überprüfung der Co-Registrierung der PET/CT-Daten im Rahmen der Konstanzprüfung]. Nuklearmedizin 47 2 (2008) A83-A84
16. Groves A., Speechly-Dick M.-E., Dickson J., et al. Cardiac 82rubidium PET/CT: initial European experience. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 34 12 (2007) 1965-1972
17. Beyer T., Antoch G., Muller S., et al. Acquisition protocol considerations for combined PET/CT imaging. J Nucl Med 45 Suppl. 1 (2004) 25S-35S
18. Bockisch A., Freudenberg L.S., Schmidt D., and Kuwert T. Hybrid imaging by SPECT/CT and PET/CT: proven outcomes in cancer imaging. Semin Nucl Med 39 4 (2009) 276-289
19. Beyer T., Antoch G., Kuehl H., and Mueller S.P. Acquisition schemes for combined F-18-FDG-PET/CT imaging-a European perspective. In: Czernin J., Dahlbom M., Ratib O., and Schiepers C. (Eds). Atlas of PET/CT imaging in oncology (2004), Springer 30-45
20. Beyer T. Design, construction, and validation of a combined PET/CT tomograph for clinical oncology (2000), Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Surrey p. 303
21. Keyes Jr. J.W. SUV: standard uptake or silly useless value?. J Nucl Med 36 10 (1995) 1836-1839
22. Boellaard R., Oyen W.J., Hoekstra C.J., et al. The Netherlands protocol for standardisation and quantification of FDG whole body PET studies in multi-centre trials. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 35 12 (2008) 2320-2333
23. Weber W., Ziegler S., Thodtmann R., Hanauske A., and Schwaiger M. Reproducibility of metabolic measurements in malignant tumors using FDG PET. J Nucl Med 40 11 (1999) 1771-1777
24. Weber W. Use of PET for monitoring cancer therapy and for predicting outcome. J Nucl Med 46 6 (2005) 983-995
25. Erdi Y.E., Nehmeh S.A., Pan T., et al. The CT motion quantitation of lung lesions and its impact on PET-measured SUVs. J Nucl Med 45 8 (2004) 1287-1292
26. Osman M.M., Cohade C., Nakamoto Y., Marshall L.T., Leal J.P., and Wahl R.L. Clinically significant inaccurate localization of lesions with PET/CT: frequency in 300 patients. J Nucl Med 44 2 (2003) 240-243
27. Lewellen T.K. Time-of-flight PET. Semin Nucl Med 28 3 (1998) 268-275
28. Surti S., Kuhn A., Werner M.E., Perkins A.E., Kolthammer J., and Karp J.S. Performance of Philips Gemini TF PET/CT scanner with special consideration for its time-of-flight imaging capabilities. J Nucl Med 48 3 (2007) 471-480
29. Panin V.Y., Kehren F., Michel C., and Casey M. Fully 3-D PET reconstruction with system matrix derived from point source measurements. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 25 7 (2006) 907-921
30. Pichler B.J., Wehrl H.F., and Judenhofer M.S. Latest advances in molecular imaging instrumentation. J Nucl Med 49 Suppl. 2 (2008) 5S-23
31. Sourbelle K., Kachelriess M., and Kalender W.A. Reconstruction from truncated projections in CT using adaptive detruncation. Eur Radiol 15 5 (2005) 1008-1014
32. Brix G., Lechel U., Glatting G., et al. Radiation exposure of patients undergoing whole-body dual-modality 18F-FDG PET/CT examinations. J Nucl Med 46 4 (2005) 608-613
33. Madsen M.T., Anderson J.A., Halama J.R., et al. AAPM Task Group 108: PET and PET/CT shielding requirements. Med Phys 33 1 (2006) 4-15
34. Schlemmer H.P., Pichler B.J., Schmand M., et al. Simultaneous MR/PET imaging of the human brain: feasibility study. Radiology 248 3 (2008) 1028-1035
35. Delso G., and Ziegler S. PET/MRI system design. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 36 Suppl. 1 (2009) S86-92
36. Hofmann M., Pichler B., Scholkopf B., and Beyer T. Towards quantitative PET/MRI: a review of MR-based attenuation correction techniques. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 36 Suppl. 1 (2009) S93-104
37. Antoch G., Vogt F.M., Freudenberg L.S., et al. Whole-body dual-modality PET/CT and whole-body MRI for tumor staging in oncology. JAMA 290 24 (2003) 3199-3206