Physical characteristics of low and medium energy collimators for i imaging and simultaneous dual-isotope imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1195-1202

  Inoue, Y ^a   Shirouzu, I ^a   Machida, T ^a   Yoshizawa, Y ^a   Akita, F ^a   Doi, I ^a   Watadani, T ^a   Noda, M ^a   Yoshikawa, K ^a   Ohtomo, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc; Collimator; Dual isotope imaging; I; Tl

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; ENERGY; EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TECHNETIUM; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 4243115820     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200311000-00011     Document Type: Article

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