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TH‐C‐202‐01: Positron Emission Tomography Imaging: Basic Nuclear Imaging Physics
Author(s) -
Schmidtlein CR
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.1118/1.3469530
Subject(s) - positron emission tomography , physics , medical imaging , medical physics , preclinical imaging , positron emission , brain positron emission tomography , nuclear imaging , nuclear physics , nuclear medicine imaging , nuclear medicine , medicine , radiology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , in vivo
The purpose of this presentation is to familiarize persons in other areas medical physics with the basic physics of imaging with PET. In this discussion three areas in PET imaging are examined: The creation and propagation of the signal the corrections to the data and the reconstruction of the images from the data. Within these areas computational tools such as Monte Carlo and simple image reconstruction programs are used to provide more a more intuitive understanding of the basic physics and the performance of PET cameras. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the physical phenomena involved in PET imaging. 2. Understand how data corrections are used to improve the accuracy of imaging the tracer distribution. 3. Understand how PET images are generated.