Abstract: An image reconstruction method motivated by positron emission tomography (PET) is discussed ... set by the methodology of statistical hypothesis testing. The new MAP algorithm is compared to ...

Tumor cells have higher metabolic activity compared to healthy tissue and consequently consume a lot of glucose. Positron ...

Christine M. Le takes a look at 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxyglucose and explains how this radioactive sugar could help to save your life.

One such innovation is the current state-of-the-art hardware and software for positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging, which has advanced it from a strictly research-oriented ...

Abstract: A Monte Carlo simulation of the gamma ray transport within a single-slice positron emission tomograph has been generated to study the effects of system parameters on performance. Included in ...