Measurement of the arrival times of annihilation photons in a detector with greater precision is opening the way to new direct forms of tomographic positron emission imaging that do not require back-projection-based reconstruction techniques.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Long-axial field-of-view PET/CT: perspectives and review of a revolutionary development in nuclear medicine based on clinical experience in over 7000 patients
Cancer Imaging Open Access 18 March 2023
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$29.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$209.00 per year
only $17.42 per issue
Rent or buy this article
Prices vary by article type
from$1.95
to$39.95
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Brownell, G. L. et al. In Symposium on Medical Radioisotope Scintigraphy (Salzburg, August 1968) 163–176 (IAEA, 1969).
Phelps, M. E. et al. J. Nucl. Med. 17, 603–612 (1976).
Czernin, J., Allen-Auerbach, M., Nathanson, D. & Herrmann, K. Curr. Radiol. Rep. 1, 177–190 (2013).
Kwon, S. I. et al. Nat. Photon. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00871-2 (2021).
Surti, S. & Karp, J. S. Phys. Med. Biol. 53, 2911–2921 (2008).
Brunner, S. E. & Schaart, D. R. Phys. Med. Biol. 62, 4421–4439 (2017).
Brunner, S. E. et al. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 61, 443–447 (2014).
Kwon, S. I. et al. Phys. Med. Biol. 61, L38 (2016).
Cates, J. W. & Levin, C. S. Phys. Med. Biol. 61, 2255–2264 (2016).
Gundacker, S. et al. Phys. Med. Biol. 65, 025001 (2020).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Surti, S., Karp, J.S. Reconstruction-free positron emission imaging. Nat. Photon. 15, 873–874 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00915-7
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00915-7