Design and performance evaluation of a coplanar multimodality scanner for rodent imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5427-5441

  Lage, E ^a   Vaquero, J J ^a   Sisniega, A ^a   Espaa S ^b   Tapias, G ^a   Abella, M ^a   Rodriguez Ruano A ^a   Ortuo J E ^c,d   Udias A ^e   Desco, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STUDIES; AXIAL DISPLACEMENTS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; COPLANAR GEOMETRY; DETECTION SYSTEM; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; ENERGY WINDOWS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; FIELDS OF VIEWS; GEOMETRIC CENTER; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; IN-VIVO; MULTI-MODALITY; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; PERFORMANCE BASED; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PET IMAGES; RADIAL RESOLUTION; SCANNER DESIGNS; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SMALL-ANIMAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT; ANIMALS; COST REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; TOMOGRAPHY; WINDOWS;

SCANNING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350635839     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/18/005     Document Type: Article

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