Image-quality assessment for several positron emitters using the NEMA NU 4-2008 standards in the siemens inveon small-animal PET scanner

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 610-617

  Disselhorst, Jonathan A ^a,b   Brom, Maarten ^a   Laverman, Peter ^a   Slump, Cornelius H ^a   Boerman, Otto C ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a   Gotthardt, Martin ^a   Visser, Eric P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Image quality; NEMA; Positron emission tomography; Positron range; Small animal

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; GALLIUM 68; IODINE 124; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ZIRCONIUM 89; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIODIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; STANDARD; ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 77950951879     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.068858     Document Type: Article

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