NEC density and liver ROI S/N ratio for image quality control of whole-body FDG-PET scans: Comparison with visual assessment

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 480-486

  Mizuta, Tetsuro ^a   Senda, Michio ^b   Okamura, Terue ^c   Kitamura, Keishi ^a   Inaoka, Yuichi ^a   Takahashi, Munehiro ^a   Matsumoto, Keiichi ^b,d   Abe, Makoto ^c   Shimonishi, Yoshihiro ^e   Shiomi, Susumu ^e  

^a SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^c SAISEIKAI NAKATSU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image quality control; NEC density; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 70350302212     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-009-0214-3     Document Type: Article

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