Aim The diagnosis, severity and extent of a sterile inflammation or a septic infection could be
challenging since there is not one single test able to achieve an accurate diagnosis. The …

Instrumentation for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has experienced
tremendous improvements in performance over the past 60 years since it was first conceived …

Background For the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection, real evidence-based guidelines to
aid clinicians in choosing the most accurate diagnostic strategy are lacking. Aim and …

Neurotransmitters as electrochemical signaling molecules are essential for proper brain
function and their dysfunction is involved in several mental disorders. Therefore, the …

Quantitative radiomics features, extracted from medical images, characterize tumour-
phenotypes and have been shown to provide prognostic value in predicting clinical …

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are becoming the reference photodetectors in many fields.
In medicine they are slowly replacing photomultiplier tubes and avalanche photodiodes in …

Purpose In this paper, we aimed to evaluate the positron emission tomography (PET)
performance of, to the best of our knowledge, the third commercially available whole-body …

This paper presents a review of Tactile Sensing Systems, with an emphasis on their
application to the non-invasive characterization of tumors. Emulating the perceptual …

Over the last decade, the combination of PET and MRI in one system has proven to be
highly successful in basic preclinical research, as well as in clinical research. Nowadays …

The 6th annual meeting to address key issues in positron emission tomography
(PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was held again in Tübingen, Germany, from …