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PET/CT and PET/MR Tomographs: Image Acquisition and Processing

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Positron emission tomography or PET is a nuclear medicine imaging technique able to measure, in vivo, the local concentration of a tracer labeled with a positron (β+)-emitting radioisotope (radiotracer or radiopharmaceutical).

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    Nicola Belcari & Matteo Morrocchi

  2. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ronald Boellaard

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  1. Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Translational Research and Advanced Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Duccio Volterrani

  2. Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Translational Research and Advanced Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Paola Anna Erba

  3. Hosp. Sant Pau, Nuclear Medicine Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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Belcari, N., Boellaard, R., Morrocchi, M. (2019). PET/CT and PET/MR Tomographs: Image Acquisition and Processing. In: Volterrani, D., Erba, P.A., Carrió, I., Strauss, H.W., Mariani, G. (eds) Nuclear Medicine Textbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95564-3_9

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