3D List-mode Cardiac PET for simultaneous quantification of myocardial blood flow and ventricular function

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5215-5218

  De Kemp, Robert A ^a   Klein, Ran ^a   Renaud, Jennifer ^a   AIghamdi, Abdulaziz ^a   Lortie, Mireille ^a   DaSilva, Jean N ^a   Beanlands, Rob S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC PET IMAGING; CORRECTION ACCURACY; COUNT RATES; DEADTIME; DYNAMIC RANGE; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; LISTMODE; MYOCARDIAL BLOOD FLOW; OPERATING RANGES; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PET IMAGING; PHANTOM STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RATE CAPABILITIES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; TIME-ACTIVITY CURVES; VENTRICLE CAVITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTIONS; WHOLE-BODY IMAGING;

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MEDICAL IMAGING; RUBIDIUM;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 67649209513     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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