Positron emission tomography in molecular imaging

Author

Pomper, Martin G. ; Hammoud, Dima A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radiol., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

23

Issue

4

fYear

2004

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

37

Abstract

The development of high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) devices is an area of increasing interest to engineers and physicists. Because this technology is eminently translatable to the clinic, PET is becoming established as an invaluable - if not the premier - molecular imaging technique. This paper gives an overview of the clinical applications of PET and dual modality CT-PET systems as well as the challenges in small-animal PET imaging.

Keywords

medical image processing; molecular biophysics; positron emission tomography; clinical applications; computerised tomography; engineers; high-resolution positron emission tomography devices; molecular imaging; physicists; small-animal PET imaging; Atomic measurements; Computed tomography; Detectors; Electrons; Event detection; Image reconstruction; Molecular imaging; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography; X-ray imaging; Animals; Cell Physiology; Gene Expression Profiling; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Molecular Biology; Positron-Emission Tomography; Subtraction Technique; Tomography, X-Ray Computed;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0739-5175

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MEMB.2004.1337947

Filename

1337947