Estimation of deadtime in imaging human subjects

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1232-1237

  Inoue, Yusuke ^a   Ohtake, Tohru ^a   Yoshikawa, Kohki ^a   Nishikawa, Junichi ^a   Sasaki, Yasuhito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deadtime; Gamma camera; Scatter

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHANTOM; RELIABILITY; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; THORAX;

BODY CONSTITUTION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNETIUM; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031715790     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050289     Document Type: Article

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