NEMA NU4-2008 image quality performance report for the micropet focus 120 and for various transmission and reconstruction methods

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1730-1738

  Bahri, Mohamed A ^a   Plenevaux, Alain ^a   Warnock, Geoffrey ^a   Luxen, André ^a   Seret, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Image quality performance; Image reconstruction methods; MicroPET; Small animal PET scanner

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; GERMANIUM 68; ISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; MICRO POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RODENT; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349637020     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.063974     Document Type: Article

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