Porous phantoms for PET and SPECT performance evaluation and quality assurance

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1183-1194

  DiFilippo, Frank P ^a   Price, James P ^b   Kelsch, Daniel N ^b   Muzic, Raymond F ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Greatbatch Inc   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Lesion detection; PET; Phantom; Porous; Scatter correction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPHERES;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION PHANTOMS; BACKGROUND RATIO; LESION DETECTION; PHANTOMS; POROUS; RADIONUCLIDE DISTRIBUTION; SCATTER-CORRECTION; SINGLE CHAMBERS; SPECT;

PHANTOMS;

RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POROSITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME;

EID: 2442651550     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1711416     Document Type: Article

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