Production of radioactive quality assurance phantoms using a standard inkjet printer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Van Staden, J A ^a   Du Raan, H ^a   Lotter M G ^a   Van Aswegen, A ^a   Herbst, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

GAMMA CAMERAS; INKJET PRINTERS; MULTI-CHANNEL ANALYZER; STANDARD LINE SOURCE;

RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS;

COBALT 57; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING;

COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRINTING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 34547095004     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/15/N02     Document Type: Article

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