Variability of lesion detectability and standardized uptake value according to the acquisition procedure and reconstruction among five PET scanners

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 543-548

  Takahashi, Yasuyuki ^a   Oriuchi, Noboru ^b   Otake, Hidenori ^c   Endo, Keigo ^b   Murase, Kenya ^d  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F FDG; PET CT; SUV

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERROR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; THICKNESS;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48749115711     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0152-1     Document Type: Article

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