Development of a PET protocol to equalize noise for PET/CT leg acquisitions

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3246-3249

  Wilson, Joshua M ^a,b   Turkington, Timothy G ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; ATTENUATION ,; CONSTANT TIMES; CURRENT PRACTICES; GEOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; IMAGE NOISES; IMAGE SLICES; PATIENT DATUMS; PATIENT SIZES; PHANTOM DATUMS; RADIOACTIVE CONCENTRATIONS; RELATIVELY CONSTANTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349108182     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436831     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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2. M. Teräs, T. Tolvanen, J.J. Johansson, J.J. Williams. J. Knuuti, "Performance of the new generation of whole-body PET/CT scanners: Discovery STE and Discovery VCT," Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 1683-1692, Oct. 2007.