Quantitative accuracy of clinical 99mTc SPECT/CT using ordered-subset expectation maximization with 3-dimensional resolution recovery, attenuation, and scatter correction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 921-928

  Zeintl, Johannes ^a   Vija, Alexander Hans ^b   Yahil, Amos ^b,c   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Kuwert, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Image Recon LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

OSEM 3D; Quantitative spect; SPECT CT; System calibration

Indexed keywords

DIPHOSPONATE TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953939468     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.071571     Document Type: Article

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