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

In this review, we will cover both clinical and technical aspects of the advantages and
disadvantages of organ specific (dedicated) molecular imaging (MI) systems, namely …

Approaches to imaging the breast with nuclear medicine and/or molecular imaging methods
have been under investigation since the late 1980s when a technique called …

Anatomic imaging such as mammography and ultrasound imaging are the mainstay of
conventional breast imaging. Contrast-enhanced MR imaging, which is both anatomic and …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate lesion detectability of a dedicated
breast positron-emission tomography (dbPET) scanner for breast cancers with an updated …

Purpose: Depth encoding detectors are required to improve the spatial resolution and
spatial resolution uniformity of small animal positron emission tomography (PET) scanners …

Breast-dedicated radionuclide imaging systems show promise for increasing clinical
sensitivity for breast cancer while minimizing patient dose and cost. We present several …

Objective. To develop a simultaneous positron emission tomography-Optical (OPET) breast
imaging dual-head PET subsystem, called DH-Mammo PET, for accurate, early diagnosis …

Background Dedicated breast positron emission tomography (dbPET) has been developed
for detecting smaller breast cancer. We investigated the diagnostic performance of dbPET in …

Breast cancer mammography is a well-acknowledged technique for patient screening due to
its high sensitivity. However, in addition to its low specificity the sensitivity of mammography …