Time-of-flight PET/CT using low-activity protocols: Potential implications for cancer therapy monitoring

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1643-1653

  Murray, Iain ^a   Kalemis, Antonis ^b   Glennon, Joe ^b   Hasan, Syed ^a   Quraishi, Shuaib ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^c   Avril, Norbert ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Cmi experts   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FDG PET; Low count statistics imaging; Low dose protocols; PET CT; Quantification; Time of flight; Treatment monitoring

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956227342     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-010-1466-5     Document Type: Article

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