Chapter
Recent developments of high-performance PET detectors
Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive medical imaging tool widely used in both clinical and preclinical research. PET has proven its value in several areas such as cancer diagnosing and staging, assessing neurological diseases, myocardium viability evaluation in cardiology, as well as radiotherapy and chemotherapy monitoring [1-4]. In recent years, PET is also being actively used in small animal research using new molecular probes …
Authors
Peng H; Levin CS
Book title
Medical Imaging Technology and Applications
Pagination
pp. 301-333
Publication Date
January 1, 2013
DOI
10.1201/b15511