OpenPET Enabling PET Imaging During Radiotherapy

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Fig. 4.1 Shows the comparison between a conventional PET detector (a) and the depth-of-interaction (DOI) detector (b). The DOI detector eliminates the parallax error, caused by the thickness of the…

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Optical Imaging: How Far Can We Go

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Fig. 7.1 Immunohistochemistry (IHC) of murine testis. (a) Antibody-specific staining of a protein antigen, which is selectively present in male germ cells with maximal levels (dark-brown staining) at spermatogonia-spermatocyte stage,…

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Recent Developments with Large-Bore PET/CT

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Model name Company Patient port size [mm] PET detector ring FDA cleared PET CT Diameter [mm] [year] ECAT Accel CTI (Siemens) 562 N/A 824 2000 Discovery LS GE Healthcare 600…

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PET Radiotracers for Tumor Imaging

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Fig. 1.1 [18F]FDG Although PET facilities are rapidly increasing worldwide, the only PET radiopharmaceutical currently available for diagnosis is [18F]FDG. In keeping with this notion, [18F]FDG is by far the…

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Clinical Evaluation of Focused High-Resolution Breast PET

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Fig. 9.1 Types of dedicated breast PET scanners. (a) Positron emission mammography (PEM). (b) Fully tomographic dedicated breast PET with dual-plate detector rotating around the breast. (c) Fully tomographic dedicated…

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Visualization of Apoptosis: Annexin V Imaging

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Imaging system Isotope Radiotracer Applied animal model  Reference  SPECT 99mTc 99mTc-BTAP-AnnexinV Atrial thrombi {Stratton, 1995 #4} {Narula, 2001 #5}    99mTc-HYNIC-Annexin V Jurkat T-cell lymphoblasts {Blankenberg, 1999 #3} {Blankenberg, 1999 #3}…

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Ethics, Regulations, and Clinical Development of Precision Medicine: Activating with Molecular Imaging

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Fig. 6.1 Constructions of guidance documents by FDA concerning medical imaging drug development and radioactive drug clinical research 6.3.1.3 Clinical Trial Network and Standardization Accordingly, more and more quality assurance…

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