Performance characteristics obtained for a new 3-dimensional lutetium oxyorthosilicate-based whole-body PET/CT scanner with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association NU 2-2001 standard

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2083-2091

  Brambilla, Marco ^a,b   Secco, Chiara ^a   Dominietto, Marco ^a   Matheoud, Roberta ^a   Sacchetti, Gianmauro ^a   Inglese, Eugenio ^a  

^a MAGGIORE DELLA CARITÀ HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Vice President and Secretary General of European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biograph 16 HI REZ; Instrumentation; NEMA standard; PET CT; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LUTETIUM; SILICATE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TIME; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUTETIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICATES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33644874714     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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