Impact of body habitus on quantitative and qualitative image quality in whole-body FDG-PET

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-45

  Tatsumi, Mitsuaki ^a   Clark, Paul A ^a   Nakamoto, Yuji ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Weight; Whole body PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOBIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0037870114     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-002-0980-5     Document Type: Article

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