A basic study on lesion detectability for hot spot imaging of positron emitters with dedicated PET and positron coincidence gamma camera

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 301-306

  Zhang, H ^a   Inoue, T ^a   Tian, M ^a,b   Alyafei, S ^a   Oriuchi, N ^a   Khan, N ^a   Li, S ^a   Endo, K ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dedicated PET; Detectability; Lesion to background ratio; Positron coincidence gamma camera; Semi quantification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034919463     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987851     Document Type: Article

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