Iterative reconstruction for pet scanners with continuous scintillators.

Several technical developments have led to a comeback of the continuous scintillators in positron emission tomography (PET). Important differences exist between the resurgent continuous scintillators and the prevailing pixelated devices, which can translate into certain advantages of the former over the latter. However, if the peculiarities of the continuous scintillators are not considered in the iterative reconstruction in which the measured data is converted to images, these advantages will not be fully exploited.

Correlations between physiological parameters related with kidney function and minute-by-minute urine output.

Aim: Recently, devices capable of measuring minute-by-minute urine output (UOm) have become available. It is not known how UOm correlates with physiological parameters in normal conditions and in disease states characterized by vascular dysfunction. This paper analyzes correlations between UOm and physiological parameters related to kidney perfusion to provide some insight about UOm pathophysiological interpretation and its relationship with renal blood flow.