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 …

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 …

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 …

Impact of using uniform attenuation coefficients for heterogeneously dense breasts in a dedicated breast PET/X-ray scanner

LR MacDonald, JY Lo, GM Sturgeon… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigated PET image quantification when using a uniform attenuation coefficient (μ)
for attenuation correction (AC) of anthropomorphic density phantoms derived from high …

Design study of an organ-dedicated positron emission tomography system

M Li - 2020 - ideals.illinois.edu
Whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) has been widely used for cancer
diagnosis and treatment, but its low spatial resolution limits the management of cancers in …