A simulation study of the counting-rate performance of clinical PET systems applying a methodology for optimizing the injected dose

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5014-5019

  Karakatsanis, Nicolas A ^a   Parasyris, Anastasios ^a   Loudos, George ^b   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ACTIVITY LEVELS; ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AXIAL POSITIONS; CLINICAL STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION PROTOCOL; DEADTIME; ENERGY WINDOWS; FIELD OF VIEWS; HUMAN PHANTOMS; LSO CRYSTALS; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; OPTIMAL RANGES; PATIENT SIZE; PEAK VALUES; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PET SCAN; PROJECTION DATA; RATE PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATISTICAL QUALITY;

OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WINDOWS;

SCANNING;

EID: 67649194512     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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