A preliminary study of quantitative protocols in indium 111 SPECT using computational simulations and phantoms

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1096-1104

  Assié, Karine ^b   Dieudonné, Arnaud ^b   Gardin, Isabelle ^b,c   Véra, Pierre ^b,c   Buvat, Irene ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Indium 111; Quantification; Single photon computed emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; ATTENUATION ,; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DUAL ENERGY; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NONUNIFORM; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PHANTOM MODELS; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; SIMULATED DATA; SINGLE PHOTON COMPUTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPECT ACQUISITION; SPECT IMAGES; TARGETED RADIOTHERAPY; TRACER CONCENTRATION; VOLUMES OF INTERESTS; YTTRIUM-90;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; INDIUM; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPHERES; TOMOGRAPHY; YTTRIUM;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953697638     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2041252     Document Type: Article

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