TY - GEN
T1 - αeT
T2 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2014
AU - Ding, Yijun
AU - Caucci, Luca
AU - Barrett, Harrison H
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NIH grants 5 R37 EB000803 and5 P41 EB002035.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2016/3/10
Y1 - 2016/3/10
N2 - Current techniques available for imaging of alpha particles, such as alpha autoradiography, are only able to produce planar (2D) images of 3D tissue samples containing radioactive substances. We introduce a new imaging technique, which we call Alpha Emission Tomography (αET), for the reconstruction of the volumetric (3D) distribution of radiotracers that emits alpha particles. Our imaging system is able to measure position and energy of each detected alpha particle. The list of measured positions and energies is fed to an iterative algorithm for 3D reconstruction. We predict that αET will become a valuable imaging technique for molecular biology.
AB - Current techniques available for imaging of alpha particles, such as alpha autoradiography, are only able to produce planar (2D) images of 3D tissue samples containing radioactive substances. We introduce a new imaging technique, which we call Alpha Emission Tomography (αET), for the reconstruction of the volumetric (3D) distribution of radiotracers that emits alpha particles. Our imaging system is able to measure position and energy of each detected alpha particle. The list of measured positions and energies is fed to an iterative algorithm for 3D reconstruction. We predict that αET will become a valuable imaging technique for molecular biology.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7430972
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2014.7430972
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84965082276
T3 - 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2014
BT - 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 8 November 2014 through 15 November 2014
ER -