Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 177-198 , May 2008

Technological Development and Advances in Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography

  • Youngho Seo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
    • Joint Bioengineering Graduate Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
    • ,
  • Carina Mari, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
    • Nuclear Medicine Service, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.
    • ,
  • Bruce H. Hasegawa, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
    • Joint Bioengineering Graduate Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
    • Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Bruce H. Hasegawa, PhD, UCSF Physics Research Laboratory, 185 Berry Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94107.

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 This work was supported by grants 1 R21 HL083073, 5 R21 EB006373, 5 K25 CA114254, 5 R01 EB000288, 2 R44 CA095936, 4 R44 EB001685, 2 R44 H083494, 2 R44 ES012361, and 1 R41 AG030241 from the National Institutes of Health; FG02-07ER84903 from the Department of Energy; dig06-10210 from the UC Discovery Grant Program; A107695 from the University of California, Berkeley; award number 02821-6 from the Thrasher Research Fund; and from General Electric Healthcare, Inc, Philips Medical Systems, Inc, and Radiation Monitoring Devices.

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