Performance comparison of two commercial BGO-based PET/CT scanners using NEMA NU 2-2001

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2708-2717

  Bolard, Grégory ^a   Prior, John O ^a   Modolo, Luca ^a   Bischof Delaloye, Angelika ^a   Kosinski, Marek ^a   Wastiel, Claude ^a   Malterre, Jérôme ^a   Bulling, Shelley ^a   Bochud, François ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MANUFACTURE; RADIOISOTOPES; SCANNING;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; COUNT RATE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RANDOM COINCIDENCES; SHORT-LIVED RADIOISOTOPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL ACQUISITION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ELECTRICITY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347381122     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2739808     Document Type: Article

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