Evaluation of the ECAT EXACT HR+ 3-D PET scanner in H215O brain activation studies: Dose fractionation strategies for rCBF and signal enhancing protocols

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 979-985

  Moreno Cantu, J J ^a   Thompson, C J ^a   Zatorre, R J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activation studies; ECAT HR+; H215o; PET

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

BRAIN ACTIVATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIGNAL ENHANCING PROTOCOLS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZATION; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STIMULATION; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WATER; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0032216611     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.746630     Document Type: Article

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