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MO‐E‐342‐02: Quantitation in Nuclear Medicine
Author(s) -
King M
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 - 10.1118/1.2962408
Subject(s) - nuclear medicine imaging , medical physics , medical imaging , medicine , nuclear medicine , nuclear imaging , computer science , radiology
The quantification of function and activity plays an important role clinically in nuclear medicine. Examples include the analysis of tracer kinetics to quantify dynamic function, the determination of the fraction of the cardiac blood pool ejected during contraction, the comparison of regional localization of uptake within the heart to that of a database to facilitate the recognition of perfusion defects in cardiac imaging, and the localization of F‐18 labeled FDG in potential lesions. Despite the present clinical utility of quantification a number of factors limit current methods. The successful addressing of these factors would expand the clinical utility of quantification and are the subject current and future investigations. This lecture will provide an introduction to the application of quantification within nuclear medicine. It will point out some current deficiencies, and potential research directions aimed at over coming them. Educational Objectives: 1. Understand the various types of quantification employed in nuclear medicine. 2. Recognize some of the limitations to robust application of quantification clinically. 3. Appreciate some of the proposed methods to overcome these limitations.