Image quality with non-standard nuclides in PET

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-158

  Laforest, R ^a   Liu, X ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Radionuclide imaging; Radiopharmaceuticals; Tomography, emission computed

Indexed keywords

BROMINE 76; COPPER 60; COPPER 61; COPPER 64; FLUORINE 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM 94M; TRACER; ZIRCONIUM 89;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44249097810     PISSN: 18244785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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