Comparison of two commercial whole body PET systems based on LSO and BGO crystals respectively for brain imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1399-1409

  Tŕbossen, Ŕgine ^a   Comtat, Claude ^a   Brulon, Vincent ^a   Bailly, Pascal ^b   Meyer, Marc Etienne ^b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

cerebral imaging; detectability; PET; quantification

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAMERAS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRYSTALS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; DETECTABILITY; DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; QUANTIFICATION; RADIOACTIVE SOLUTION; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS;

SPHERES;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE BODY PET;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63849244849     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3075815     Document Type: Article

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