Optimization of the injected activity in dynamic 3D PET: A generalized approach using patient-specific NECs as demonstrated by a series of 15O-H2O scans

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1409-1417

  Walker, Matthew D ^a   Matthews, Julian C ^a   Asselin, Marie Claude ^a   Saleem, Azeem ^a   Dickinson, Clare ^a   Charnley, Natalie ^a   Julyan, Peter J ^a,b   Price, Patricia M ^a   Jones, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow measurement; Dose optimization; NEC; Noise equivalent count rate; PET

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER;

EID: 69449098546     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.062679     Document Type: Article

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