67ga planar imaging with a low-energy collimator and scatter correction using the triple energy window method

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 647-658

  Okada, Junichi ^a   Imai, Y ^a   Tamada, H ^a   Kawashiro, O ^a   Yui, N ^b   Togawa, T ^b   Kinoshita, F ^b   Ito, H ^c  

^a NARITA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENERGY RESOURCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHANTOM; TUMOR SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFLAMMATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; COLON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032589210     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199907000-00008     Document Type: Article

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