Advances in PET

Jun Zhang, PhD, DABR is Assistant Professor of Radiology at The Ohio State University and a member of AAPM Nuclear Medicine Sub-Committee. He has published and presented widely on solid state PET and nuclear medicine. Michael V. Knopp, MD, PhD is Professor of Radiology at The Ohio State University, holds the Novartis Chair of Imaging Research and is the PI and director of the Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging and the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core of the NCI National Clinical Trial Network.

PART I: Basics Science of Positron Emission Tomography.- Current status of PET Technology.- Current status and future directions of PET in clinical practice.- PART II: Solid State Digital PET Instrumentation, Technology and Clinical Practice.- Introduction to silicon photomultipliers for time-of-flight PET.- New Generation Silicon Photomultiplier-based Clinical PET/CT and PET/MR Systems.- Solid State Digital Photon Counting PET/CT.- Siemens Biograph Vision 600.- PART III: Future Prospective of PET/CT Instrumentation and Technology.- Future Prospects of TOF PET Instrumentation and Technology.