Improved Techniques for PET Imaging

  1. Lopez Montes, Alejandro
Supervised by:
  1. Joaquín López Herraiz Director
  2. José Manuel Udías Moinelo Director

Defence university: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 20 July 2021

Committee:
  1. Samuel España Palomares Chair
  2. Mailyn Pérez Liva Secretary
  3. Christoph Lerche Committee member
  4. Esther Vicente Torrico Committee member
  5. Jacobo Cal González Committee member
Department:
  1. Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 156610 DIALNET lock_openDocta Complutense editor

Abstract

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical imaging technique based on the administration of molecules of biological interest labelled with a radionuclide which decays + emitting positrons. These positrons are annihilated with an electron emitting, most of the times, two photons, in opposite directions which are detected in coincidence in as canner (usually with detectors arranged in a ring form). Then the position of the source inside the body can be determined from the directions given by the two detection points of each coincidence, reconstructing the image of the uptake of the radio-labelled drug in the organism. These images provides important functional information of the body of the patient...