Triple-head gamma camera PET: system overview and performance characteristics

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 809-814

  Grosev D ^a   Loncaric S ^a   Vandenberghe, S ^a   Dodig, D ^a  

^a Rebro Hospita   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gamma camera PET; Performance characteristics; Sensitivity; Triple head coincidence imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COMPTON EFFECT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; HUMAN;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

EID: 0035991816     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200208000-00016     Document Type: Article

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