Impact of the lower energy threshold on the NEMA NU2-2001 count-rate performance of a LSO based PET-CT scanner;Einfluss der Unteren Energieschwelle auf das NEMA NU2-2001 Zählratenverhalten eines ISO-basierten PET-CT-Scanners

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 210-214

  Eckardt, J ^a   Herzog, H ^b   Schafers K P ^a   Kapplinger S ^c   Schober, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; LSO; NEMA; Performance; PET CT

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM; LUTETIUM 176; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; LUTETIUM ORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUTETIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICATES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149357531     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3413/nukmed-0148     Document Type: Article

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