Lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) intrinsic activity correction and minimal detectable target activity study for SPECT imaging with a LSO-based animal PET scanner

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4399-4415

  Yao, Rutao ^a   Ma, Tianyu ^a,b   Shao, Yiping ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; LUTETIUM; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PLANNING; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INTRINSIC ACTIVITIES; LUTETIUM OXY-ORTHOSILICATE; PET SCANNERS; SPECT ACQUISITION; SPECT IMAGING; TARGET ACTIVITY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

LUTETIUM; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CRYSTAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; SCREENING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LUTETIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICATES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 51849109066     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/16/012     Document Type: Article

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