June 19, 2014
Correspondence: Charles C Watson charles.c.watson@siemens.com
Siemens Healthcare, 810 Innovation Drive, Knoxville, TN 37932, USA
EJNMMI Physics 2014, 1:6 doi:10.1186/2197-7364-1-6
Abstract
From a technical perspective, there are fundamentally two forces driving the evolution of instrumentation in positron emission tomography (PET) and nuclear medicine generally: clinical needs and technical innovation. This essay considers some of the dynamics of these forces as they act on physics-related developments in PET and suggests that progress will be greatest if these differing motivations are kept in balance as the field evolves.
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.ejnmmiphys.com/content/1/1/6
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