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MO‐E‐342‐01: Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation
Author(s) -
Turkington T
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.2962407
Subject(s) - instrumentation (computer programming) , data acquisition , detector , iterative reconstruction , medical physics , computer science , image quality , process (computing) , artificial intelligence , software , nuclear medicine , computer vision , physics , medicine , image (mathematics) , telecommunications , programming language , operating system
Nuclear Medicine instrumentation continues to progress, both hardware and software. Advances in PET/CT include increased PET sensitivity, respiratory gating, time of flight measurement, and improved image reconstruction algorithms that encorporate more physical effects into the acquisition model. Gamma cameras are incorporating new detector materials, and SPECT is being done with new acquisition geometries and reconstructed with new algorithms. We will discuss new developments in nuclear medicine instrumentation, including ones that are currently available commercially and ones that are on the horizon. Educational Objectives: 1. Understand three new developments in PET that have the potential to improve image quality. 2. Understand how new detector materials allow new acquisition geometries for SPECT. 3. Understand how physic effects in the acquisition process can be modeled in the image reconstruction process. Research sponsored by GE Healthcare.