Breast-dedicated radionuclide imaging systems

DFC Hsu, DL Freese, CS Levin - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
Breast-dedicated radionuclide imaging systems show promise for increasing clinical
sensitivity for breast cancer while minimizing patient dose and cost. We present several …

High-resolution 18F-FDG PET/CT for assessing disease activity in rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis: findings of a prospective pilot study

AJ Chaudhari, A Ferrero, F Godinez… - The British journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) commonly affect the small
joints of the wrist and hand. We evaluated the performance of a new, high-resolution …

Advances in Breast PET Instrumentation

S Krishnamoorthy, S Surti - PET clinics, 2024 - pet.theclinics.com
Breast cancer (BC) is the most prevalent form of cancer in women and recently has
surpassed lung cancer as the most diagnosed cancer. 1 According to references 1, 2 …

Evaluating attenuation correction strategies in a dedicated, single-gantry breast PET-tomosynthesis scanner

S Krishnamoorthy, T Vent, B Barufaldi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We are developing a dedicated, combined breast positron emission tomography (PET)-
tomosynthesis scanner. Both the PET and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) scanners are …

A dedicated breast‐PET/CT scanner: Evaluation of basic performance characteristics

RR Raylman, W Van Kampen, AV Stolin… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Application of advanced imaging techniques, such as PET and x ray CT, can
potentially improve detection of breast cancer. Unfortunately, both modalities have …

[图书][B] Radiation detectors for medical imaging

JS Iwanczyk - 2015 - books.google.com
Radiation Detectors for Medical Imaging discusses the current state of the art and future
prospects of photon-counting detectors for medical imaging applications. Featuring …

Augmented whole-body scanning via magnifying PET

J Jiang, S Samanta, K Li, SB Siegel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel technique, called augmented whole-body scanning via magnifying PET (AWSM-
PET), that improves the sensitivity and lesion detectability of a PET scanner for whole-body …

Application-specific nuclear medical in vivo imaging devices

AJ Chaudhari, RD Badawi - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear medical imaging devices, such as those enabling photon emission imaging
(gamma camera, single photon emission computed tomography, or positron emission …

Simulation study of quantitative precision of the PET/X dedicated breast PET scanner

C Zeng, PE Kinahan, H Qian… - Journal of Medical …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The goal for positron emission tomography (PET)/X is measuring changes in radiotracer
uptake for early assessment of response to breast cancer therapy. Upper bounds for …

The PET/X dedicated breast-PET scanner for optimizing cancer therapy

LR MacDonald, WCJ Hunter, C Zeng… - … Workshop on Breast …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We are currently building the PET/X scanner, which is a breast positron emission
tomography (PET) scanner combined with a standard X-ray mammography system. The role …