Design and construction of a quality control phantom for SPECT and PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5404-5411

  Hunt, Dylan Christopher ^a   Easton, Harry ^a   Caldwell, Curtis B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

PET; PET CT; Phantom; Quality assessment; Rapid prototyping; SPECT

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

CONSTRUCTION METHOD; CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPECT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 72049112276     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3250855     Document Type: Article

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