An easy-to-use phantom and protocol for weekly PET quality assessment: A multicenter study

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3922-3934

  Vermandel, M ^a,f   Fin, L ^b   Hapdey, S ^c,d   Bol, A ^e   Betrouni, N ^a   Daouk, J ^b   Gardin, I ^c,d   Lee, J ^e   Jounwaz, R ^a   Rousseau, J ^a   Huglo, D ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Image processing; PET; Phantom; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT DETECTION; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; MONITORING AND EVALUATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SLICE-SENSITIVITY PROFILES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 50449096626     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2964091     Document Type: Article

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