Patient-specific noise-equivalent-counts from repeated, dose varying [O-15]H2O PET scans

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3277-3282

  Walker, Matthew D ^a,b   Matthews, Julian C ^b   Asselin, Marie Claude ^b   Saleem, Azeem ^b   Price, Pat ^b   Jones, Terry ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Dose optimisation; Dynamic positron emission tomography; Injected dose; NEC; Noise equivalent count rate; PET; Volume of distribution, water

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EXTRAPOLATION; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW; DOSE OPTIMISATION; INJECTED DOSE; NEC; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATE; PET; VOLUME-OF-DISTRIBUTION, WATER;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 48349116135     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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