Published 2016
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Journal article
Positron Emission Tomography: Its 65 years
Creators
- 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, (Italy)
Description
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a well-established imaging technique for in vivo molecular imaging. In this review after a brief history of PET there are presented its physical principles and the technology that has been developed for bringing PET from a bench experiment to a clinical indispensable instrument. The limitations and performance of the PET tomographs are discussed, both as for the hardware and software aspects. The status of art of clinical, preclinical and hybrid scanners (i.e., PET/CT and PET/MR) is reported. Finally the actual trend and the recent and future technological developments are fully illustrated.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Rivista del Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica
- Journal Volume
- 39
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 155-223
- ISSN
- 0393-697X
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 47113874
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHERENKOV RADIATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY