Impact of target-to-background ratio, target size, emission scan duration, and activity on physical figures of merit for a 3D LSO-based whole body PET/CT scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3854-3865

  Brambilla, M ^a   Matheoud, R ^a   Secco, C ^a   Sacchetti, G ^b   Comi, S ^a   Rudoni, M ^b   Carriero, A ^b   Inglese, E ^b  

^a MAGGIORE DELLA CARITÀ HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise; Image quality; PET CT

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; SPHERES;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

EID: 34748894205     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2776242     Document Type: Article

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