Preliminary study on potential of the jPET-D4 human brain scanner for small animal imaging

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-190

  Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Toramatsu, Chie ^a,b   Nishimura, Mayumi ^a   Shimada, Yoshiya ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Shibuya, Kengo ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth of interaction; DOI; Image reconstruction; PET; Small animal

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; SODIUM 22;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CRYSTAL; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROPOSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TUMOR MODEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65349189553     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0224-2     Document Type: Article

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