Perfrmance evalution of the inveon dedicated PET preclinical tomograph based on the NEMA NU-4 standards

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 401-408

  Bao, Qinan ^a   Newport, Danny ^b   Chen, Mu ^a,c   Stout, David B ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Out of the Box Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c Siemens Preclinical Solutions Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MicroPET; Molecular imaging; Performance evaluation; instrumentation; Small animal PET scanner

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LUTETIUM; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUSE; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION NU 4 STANDARD; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 62449092307     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.056374     Document Type: Article

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