Performance characteristics of an eight-ring whole body pet scanner

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 437-445

  Kops, Elena Rota ^a   Herzog, Hans ^a   Schmid, August ^a   Holte, Sven ^b   Feinendegen, Ludwig E ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attenuation Values; Emission computed tomography; Performance Evaluation; Techniques

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; DEOXYGLUCOSE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FILTRATION; FLUDEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0025355553     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199005000-00022     Document Type: Article

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