Evaluation of accuracy in activity calculations for the conjugate view method from Monte Carlo simulated scintillation camera images using experimental data in an anthropomorphic phantom

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1679-1686

  Jönsson, Lena ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^a   Strand, Sven Erik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity quantification; Conjugate view method; Monte Carlo simulations; Scintigraphy; Sestamibi

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644666356     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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