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Integrated PET/CT

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Cardiac PET and PET/CT Imaging

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The recent development of combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) instrumentation is an important evolution in imaging technology. Since the introduction of the first prototype CT scanner in the early 1970s, tomographic imaging has made significant contributions to the diagnosis and staging of disease. Rapid commercial development followed the introduction of the first CT scanner in 1972, and within 3 years of its appearance more than 12 companies were marketing, or intending to market, CT scanners; about half that number actually market CT scanners today. With the introduction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the early 1980s, CT was, at that time, predicted to last another 5 years at most before being replaced by MRI for anatomical imaging. Obviously, this did not happen, and today, with multislice detectors, spiral acquisition, and subsecond rotation times, CT continues to develop and to play a major role in clinical imaging, in particular for the assessment of cardiovascular disease. Indeed, one of the main driving forces for the current development in CT is for applications in cardiology.

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  1. University of Tennessee, Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN, USA

    David W. Townsend PhD (Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Director, Cancer Imaging and Tracer Development Research Program)

  2. Knoxville Cardiovascular Group, PC, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Myrwood C. Besozzi MD (Clinical Professor of Medicine)

  3. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jonathan P. J. Carney PhD (Assistant Professor of Radiology)

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Marcelo F. Di Carli MD (Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Co-Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine) (Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Co-Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine)

  2. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Martin J. Lipton MD, FACR, FACC (Director of Education, Non-Invasive Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Radiology) (Director of Education, Non-Invasive Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Radiology)

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Townsend, D.W., Besozzi, M.C., Carney, J.P.J. (2007). Integrated PET/CT. In: Di Carli, M.F., Lipton, M.J. (eds) Cardiac PET and PET/CT Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38295-1_3

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