CPET -Technical Slide Presentations

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Viewing the slides: As of September 1996, there are three methods available for viewing the slide presentations on this page. The latter two require machines running Win95, NT, or PowerPoint 7.0.

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  3. Download the actual PowerPoint presentation from the link below the description. To view the presentation you must have PowerPoint 7.0 (or greater), or download the free PowerPoint viewer (Win95 or NT) from Microsoft.

All presentations were created in PowerPoint 7.0 using the free HTML (beta 1.5 or higher required) and Animation export add-ons available for this software from the Microsoft WEB site.

SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

SPM - Statistical Parametric Mapping presentations

Note: The SPM presentations on this page represent our ongoing and developing understanding of the SPM software package. The presentations were given to local researchers outside of our PET group - who are interested in collaborating with us - in an attempt to pass our understanding along to them. Most of the information represents our interpretation (or a verbatim extraction from) the "SPM Short Course" body of materials generously made available over the WEB to all by the SPM authors located at the Wellcome Dept. of Cognitive Neurology. This material has not been reviewed by those authors, and any errors are purely our own.
Introduction to SPM'95 960805 - Introduction to SPM'95 (Brian Murphy, David Wack)

ActiveX slide presentationThis series of slides provides an overview of the SPM'95 software package from the perspective of wanting to know 1) what it does (somewhat of a black box explanation), and 2) how you analyze data with it so a researcher can better understand how to set up experiments appropriate for analysis with SPM'95.

Download PowerPoint 7.0 presentation (ActiveX-344KB; PP-2,767KB)

SPM gCBF correction 960719 - gCBF correction in SPM'95 (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentationDiscussion of correction for gCBF in SPM'95 relative to the General Linear model postulated by Friston, et.al. Also covers potential violation of assumptions if there are large, condition dependent changes of gCBF.

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SPM eigenimages 960805 - Eigenimages in SPM'95 (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentationThis series of slides provides an overview Eigenimages by defining what they are, and how they describe the experimenter's data set. Some very simple (two scans, two pixels per scan, etc.) data sets are examined to try and provide an intuitive feel for what Eigenimages describe (and how they may be misleading). Sample Eigenimages and our "interpretations" of them will be added at a later date.

Download PowerPoint 7.0 presentation (ActiveX-245KB; PP-2,187KB)

PET Physics Introduction

The PET technologist training course is being adapted to comprise a portion of the NMD 525 graduate seminar course covering PET Radiochemistry, Physics, and Pharmacology. The slides below represent a portion of the Physics component of this course. The are designed to accompany a lecture, but should provide enough detail for "enlightened" self study.

960925 - PET Physics Overview (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentation Presents an introduction to the topics which will be covered in the PET physics course, and some pictures from our facility.

Download PowerPoint 7.0 presentation (ActiveX-9,800KB; PP-16,245KB)

960925 - Radioactive Decay (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentation Introduction to radioactive decay mechanisms, measurement units, and decay schemes, focusing on positron emitters.

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960925 - Photon Detection - I (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentation Conceptual overview of photon detection and categorization of a Line Of Response (LOR).

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960925 - Data Acquisition / Storage (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentation How lines of response are sorted into image planes and stored in sinograms.

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960925 - Photon Detection - II (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentationReal world mechanisms that complicate the process of correctly determining when a coincidence event has occured, and then in asigning it to the proper LOR. 

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960925 - PET Attenuation Correction (Brian Murphy)

ActiveX slide presentation How attenuation corrections are determined to correct for count losses due to photon attenuation. 

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CPET Teaching Files / Research

Teaching Files Slide presentations related to clinical and research studies are maintained off of this page.

 

This part of the Department of Nuclear Medicine web site is from our previous site and is no longer being actively maintained.

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For questions or comments about this web site please contact: rkayton@buffalo.edu

To contact Brian W. Murphy who developed this site please contact: bwmurphy@buffalo.edu
(Please note: some pages list Brian's email address as brian@petnet.buffalo.edu. The address is no longer active)

Last update: March 26, 2008