Positron Emission Tomography: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Technological Advances in Clinical and Preclinical Imaging Systems

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue , 2015, Pages 385-414

  Vaquero, Juan José ^a,b   Kinahan, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodality kinetic modeling; PET CT; PET MRI; Silicon photomultipliers; System model; Tomographic image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

KINETIC MODELING; PET/MRI; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SYSTEM MODELING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA N 13; RUBIDIUM 82;

ALGORITHM; BREATHING RATE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPTON EFFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SOLID STATE; TUMOR VOLUME; X RAY; ANIMAL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRENDS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84949516535     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071114-040723     Document Type: Review

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