Accuracy of quantitative reconstructions in SPECT/CT imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4595-4604

  Shcherbinin, S ^a   Celler, A ^a   Belhocine, T ^b   Vanderwerf, R ^b   Driedger, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; HEALTH; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVITY; RESTORATION; TECHNETIUM;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; ATTENUATION ,; ERROR LEVELS; GE HEALTHCARE; HAWKEYE; MULTI-SLICE CT; NON-RADIOACTIVE WATER; PHANTOM STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; SEPTAL PENETRATION; THORAX PHANTOM;

REPAIR;

HOLMIUM 166; INDIUM 111; IODINE 123; IODINE 131; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51849141433     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/009     Document Type: Article

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