A method to measure PET scatter fractions for daily quality control

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4609-4615

  De Jong, H W ^a,b   Lubberink, M ^b   Watabe, H ^c   Iida, H ^c   Lammertsma, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

NEMA; PET; Quality control; Scatter fraction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

ACQUISITION MODES; DETECTOR GAIN; NEMA; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SCATTERED EVENTS; SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENT; VERSATILE METHODS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 70349678711     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213096     Document Type: Article

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