Performance evaluation of an Inveon PET preclinical scanner

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2885-2899

  Constantinescu, Cristian C ^a   Mukherjee, Jogeshwar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; COUNT RATE PERFORMANCE; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; ENERGY WINDOWS; FIELD OF VIEWS; GLASS CAPILLARY TUBES; HIGH ACTIVITY; LINE SOURCES; LIST MODE DATA; MICROPET; MOUSE PHANTOMS; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PET SCANNER; POINT SOURCES; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSAXIAL; WALL THICKNESS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM; WINDOWS;

SCANNING;

COBALT 57; FLUORIDE SODIUM; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOLIGAND; SODIUM 22; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE; BRAIN; ENERGY; HEART; IMAGING SYSTEM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 67649883194     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/020     Document Type: Article

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