Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zaidi, Habib (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Physics.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Cardiology.; Oncology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biomedical Engineering.

This book provides a review of image analysis techniques as they are applied in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine. Driven in part by the remarkable sophistication of nuclear medicine instrumentation and - crease in computing power and its ready and inexpensive availability, th...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Nuclear Medical Imaging: Physics and Instrumentation
• Dual-Modality Imaging: More Than the Sum of its Components
• Analytic Image Reconstruction Methods in Emission Computed Tomography
• Iterative Reconstruction Methods
• Collimator-Detector Response Compensation in SPECT
• Attenuation Correction Strategies in Emission Tomography
• Scatter Correction Strategies in Emission Tomography
• Correction for Partial Volume Effects in Emission Tomography
• Image Registration Techniques in Nuclear Medicine Imaging
• Image Segmentation Techniques in Nuclear Medicine Imaging
• Monte Carlo Modeling in Nuclear Medicine Imaging
• Tracer Kinetic Modeling in Nuclear Medicine: Theory and Applications
• Methods for Planar Image Quantification
• Quantitative Analysis in Functional Brain Imaging
• Quantitative Analysis in Myocardial SPECT Imaging
• Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Oncologic Imaging
• Quantitative Imaging-Based Dosimetry and Treatment Planning in Radionuclide Therapy
• Summary.