A dual modality approach to quantitative quality control in emission tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Thomas, Michael D R ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^b   Livieratos, Lefteris ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRONS; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANATOMICAL CORRELATION; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIC DEVICES (ET); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISPLAY SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22544484195     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/15/N03     Document Type: Article

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