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

Accurate quantification in PET and SPECT requires correction for a number of physical
factors, such as photon attenuation, Compton scattering and random coincidences (in PET) …

Chemical synapses are the predominant neuron-to-neuron contact in the central nervous
system. Presynaptic boutons of neurons contain hundreds of vesicles filled with …

PET has the invaluable advantage of being intrinsically quantitative, enabling accurate
measurements of tracer concentrations in vivo. In PET tumor imaging, indices characterizing …

Tracer techniques and quantitative autoradiographic and tissue counting models for
measuremnt of metabolic rates were combined with positron computed tomography (PCT) …

Correction for Partial Volume Effects in PET: Principle and Validation Page 1 Correction for
Partial Volume Effects in PET: Principle and Validation Olivier G. Roussel, Yilong Ma and Alan …

The aim of that book was to address what we perceived of as a lack, at the time, of a
comprehensive contemporary reference work on the rapidly expanding area of positron …

Patient Size Body composition and habitus are a source of variability because the
conventional SUV normalizes for body weight. Fat, however, has a much lower uptake of …

Developments in positron emission tomography (PET) technology have resulted in systems
with finer detector elements designed to further improve spatial resolution. However, there is …

Presents an image reconstruction method for positron-emission tomography (PET) based on
a penalized, weighted least-squares (PWLS) objective. For PET measurements that are …