1st Edition

Physics of PET and SPECT Imaging

Edited By Magnus Dahlbom Copyright 2017
    503 Pages
    by CRC Press

    504 Pages 175 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    PET and SPECT imaging has improved to such a level that they are opening up exciting new horizons in medical diagnosis and treatment. This book provides a complete introduction to fundamentals and the latest progress in the field, including an overview of new scintillator materials and innovations in photodetector development, as well as the latest system designs and image reconstruction algorithms. It begins with basics of PET and SPECT physics, followed by technology advances and computing methods, quantitative techniques, multimodality imaging, instrumentation, pre-clinical and clinical imaging applications.



    Part 1 BASICS. Principles of SPECT and PET Imaging. Part 2 TECHNOLOGY. Scintillators for PET and SPECT. Photodetectors. Acquisition Electronics. SPECT Instrumentation. PET Instrumentation. PART 3 QUANTITATIVE IMAGING. Methodologies for Quantitative SPECT. Data Corrections and Quantitative PET. Image Reconstruction for PET and SPECT. High-Performance Computing in Emission Tomography. Methods and Applications of Dynamic. SPECT Imaging. Dynamic PET Imaging. Part 4 MULTIMODALITY IMAGING. PET/CT. SPECT/CT. PET/MRI. Part 5 PRECLINICAL IMAGING AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. Preclinical PET and SPECT. Clinical Applications of PET/CT and SPECT/CT Imaging

    Biography

    Magnus Dahlbom has been working in the field of Nuclear Medicine for close to 30 years. He earned his B.Sc. in physics from the University of Stockholm in 1982. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1987. His Ph.D. research was on high-resolution PET detectors and image processing. In 1989 he was part of the team that started the first clinical PET operation in the U.S. at UCLA. Around the same time developed together with Drs. Edward J. Hoffman and Michael E. Phelps the Whole Body PET imaging technique, which currently makes up more than 90% of all PET studies performed. His research interests are in PET and SPECT instrumentation and image processing. Since 1989 he has been the chief physicist at the Nuclear Medicine services at UCLA where he is responsible for all imaging instrumentation, including SPECT, SPECT/CT and PET/CT systems. At UCLA he is the faculty graduate advisor in the Biomedical Physics graduate program. He is teaching graduate level courses on the basics of Nuclear Medicine imaging and instrumentation. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 research papers and 11 book chapters on nuclear imaging instrumentation and processing. He was also co-editor of a PET/CT atlas. For the last 6 years he has been serving as an editorial consultant to the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.