Correction Techniques in Emission Tomography

Introduction, Klaus Schafers Introduction Principle of Emission Tomography Electromagnetic Spectrum Need for Correction Techniques BACKGROUND Biomedical Applications of Emission Tomography, Michael Schafers, Sven Hermann, Sonja Schafers, Thomas Viel, Marilyn Law, and Andreas H. Jacobs The role of imaging in biomedical research and applications Functional and molecular imaging by emission tomography enables high sensitivity and spatial resolution Biomedical applications of emission tomography depend on tracers Applications PET Image Reconstruction, Frank Wubbeling Introduction Analytical algorithms Discrete algorithms Summary CORRECTIONS TECHNIQUES IN PET AND SPECT Basics of PET and SPECT Imaging, Ralph A. Bundschuh and Sibylle I. Ziegler Introduction Corrections for Physical Factors, Florian Buther Introduction Decay correction Randoms correction Attenuation correction Scatter correction Concluding remarks Corrections for Scanner Related Factors, Marc Huismann Positron emission tomography Single photon emission computed tomography Image Processing Techniques in Emission Tomography, Fabian Gigengack, Michael Fieseler, Daniel Tenbrinck, and Xiaoyi Jiang Introduction Denoising Interpolation Registration Partial volume correction Super-resolution Validation Motion Correction in Emission Tomography, Mohammad Dawood Introduction Motion correction on 3D PET data Optical flow Lucas/Kanade optical flow Horn/Schunck optical flow Bruhn optical flow Preserving discontinuities Correcting for motion Mass conservation-based optical flow Combined Correction and Reconstruction Methods, Martin Benning, Thomas Kosters, and Frederic Lamare Introduction Parameter identification Combined reconstruction and motion correction Combination of parameter identification and motion estimation RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Introduction into Hybrid Tomographic Imaging, Hartwig Newiger Introduction Combining PET and SPECT The combination with MR Combining ultrasound with PET and SPECT MR-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MR, Matthias Hofmann, Bernd Pichler, and Thomas Beyer Introduction MR-AC for brain applications Methods for torso imaging Discussion Conclusion Optical Imaging, Angelique Ale and Vasilis Ntziachristos Introduction Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) FMT and hybrid FMT systems Index References appear at the end of each chapter.