PET is an important and growing imaging modality. PET instrumentation has undergone a
steady evolution improving various aspects of imaging. In this review, we discuss recent and …

Cardiovascular imaging has largely focused on identifying structural, functional, and
metabolic changes in the heart. The ability to reliably assess disease activity would have …

Contraction of the heart is central to its purpose of pumping blood around the body. While
simple global function measures (such as the ejection fraction) are most commonly used in …

Cardiac PET is a versatile imaging technique providing important diagnostic information
about ischemic heart diseases. Respiratory and cardiac motion of the heart can strongly …

Over the last decade, the combination of PET and MRI in one system has proven to be
highly successful in basic preclinical research, as well as in clinical research. Nowadays …

State-of-the-art patient management frequently requires the use of non-invasive imaging
methods to assess the anatomy, function or molecular-biological conditions of patients or …

This book Basic Science of PET Imaging was designed to be a daughter element of the
parent book Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine (Springer, Khalil MM (Ed), 2011) with …

Purpose Develop a framework for efficient free‐breathing simultaneous whole‐heart
coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) and cardiac positron emission …

Phantoms are commonly used throughout medical imaging and medical physics for a
multitude of applications, the designs of which vary between modalities and clinical or …

Subject motion in positron emission tomography (PET) is a key factor that degrades image
resolution and quality, limiting its potential capabilities. Correcting for it is complicated due to …