Nuclear medicine imaging

R. Kumar, S. Jana, Positron emission tomography An advanced nuclear medicine imaging technique from research to clinical practice. Methods Enzymol. 385 (2004) 3-19. 

Heart Agents. Routine myocardial perfusion imaging in nuclear medicine started with ° T1 thallous chloride. While ° T1+ is efficiently perfused into the myocardium, the long half-life and imaging characteristic s are not optimal for nuclear medicine imaging and cationic Tc-based perfusion agents were desired. 

Eberl, S. Zimmerman, R.E. Nuclear medicine imaging instrumentation. In Nuclear medicine in clinical diagnosis and treatment Ell, P.J., Gambhir, S.S., Eds. Churchill Livingstone Edinburgh, 2004 Vol. 2, 1765-1775. 

The Medical Science Division (MSD) within the BER supports fundamental research and technology development in medicine, particularly in the fields of nuclear medicine, imaging sciences, and neurosciences. 

Among the most recent advances in the fusion of nuclear medicine images with computed tomography (SPECT/CT) and computed tomography angiography (SPECT/ CTA) in basic science studies in small animals, SPECT/CT was the topic of 11 instrumentation presentations, while PET/CT in small animals accounted for 5 presentations. 

Hal s greatest contribution was to replace the rectilinear scanners with the scintillation camera (Fig. 7.5.) invented in 1957, and perfected in the 1960s and 1970s. The invention of the Anger camera led to the birth of nuclear cardiology, which accounts for more than half of all nuclear medicine imaging studies in the US today. 

Zanzonico, P. Principles of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Planar, SPECT, PET, Multi-modality, and Autoradiography Systems. Radiat. Res. 177, 349-364 (2012)... 

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