Performance of coincidence imaging with long-lived positron emitters as an alternative to dedicated PET and SPECT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5419-5432

  Sandström, Mattias ^a   Tolmachev, Vladimir ^b   Kairemo, Kalevi ^a,b   Lundqvist, Hans ^b   Lubberink, Mark ^c,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Uppsala Imanet AB   (Sweden)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

COINCIDENCE IMAGING; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

BROMINE 76; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE 18; INDIUM 111; IODINE 124; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM 86;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 12744281031     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/24/002     Document Type: Article

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