MO‐E‐342‐01: Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation

Nuclear Medicine instrumentation continues to progress, both hardware and software. Advances in PET/CT include increased PET sensitivity, respiratory gating, time of flight measurement, and improved image reconstruction algorithms that encorporate more physical effects into the acquisition model. Gamma cameras are incorporating new detector materials, and SPECT is being done with new acquisition geometries and reconstructed with new algorithms. We will discuss new developments in nuclear medicine instrumentation, including ones that are currently available commercially and ones that are on the horizon. Educational Objectives: 1. Understand three new developments in PET that have the potential to improve image quality. 2. Understand how new detector materials allow new acquisition geometries for SPECT. 3. Understand how physic effects in the acquisition process can be modeled in the image reconstruction process. Research sponsored by GE Healthcare. © 2008, American Association of Physicists in Medicine. All rights reserved.

Duke Scholars

Author Timothy Garvey Turkington Radiology