PHYSICS OF PET AND SPECT IMAGING

• 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

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.

Features
• Provides a single, comprehensive and authoritative account of PET and SPECT instrumentation, correction techniques, image reconstruction, multimodality and preclinical imaging
• Includes a background section that gives the foundation of PET and SPECT physics
• Gives a detailed summary of detector technology, from basics of scintillators, photodetectors, and solid state detectors, to the state of the art in PET and SPECT instrumentation
• Discusses quantitative imaging aspects, from PET and SPECT corrections to image reconstruction, dynamic PET and SPECT, and whole body PET
• Covers multimodality imaging in detail, including PET/CT, SPECT/CT, PET/MRI, and SPECT/MRI, as well as preclinical PET and SPECT

Author
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.