This is a time of rapid change in the evolution of clinical positron imaging systems, spurred
by the wider availability of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, continued increase in clinical research …

The developments in positron emission tomography (PET) are reviewed with an emphasis
on instrumentation for clinical PET imaging. After a brief summary of positron imaging before …

PET scanners are sophisticated and highly sensitive biomedical imaging devices that can
produce highly quantitative images showing the 3-dimensional distribution of radiotracers …

Instrumentation for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has experienced
tremendous improvements in performance over the past 60 years since it was first conceived …

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is based on detecting two time-coincident high-
energy photons from the emission of a positron-emitting radioisotope. The physics of the …

Positron emission tomography (PET) has been a useful research technique in the study of
cerebral physiology since the early 1970s. Over the past decade, however, there has been …

Up to a few years ago, positron emission tomography (PET) was known as a very expensive
research tool using positron emitting radiopharmaceuticals to study metabolic processes in …

This is the first article of a four-part series on positron emission tomography (PET). Upon
completing the article, the reader should be able to:(1) comprehend the basic principles of …

Positron imaging instrumentation has improved rapidly in the last few years. Scanners
currently under development are beginning to approach fundamental limits set by positron …

[en] The capability to reconstruct both longitudinal or transverse tomographic slices with the
positron camera system affords unique advantages. The longitudinal tomographic mode …