NEMA NU 2-2001 performance testing of a philips gemini GXL PET/CT scanner

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-209

  Sathiakumar, Chithradevi ^a   Som, Seu ^a   Eberl, Stefan ^b   Lin, Peter ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceptance testing; National electrical manufacturers standards; Performance measurement; Positron emission tomography computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; CLINICAL IMAGES; CLINICAL SERVICES; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL USE; ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS; ENERGY WINDOWS; NEMA NU 2-2001; NOISE EQUIVALENT COUNT RATES; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PET SCANNER; PET/CT SCANNERS; PHILIPS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTER FRACTIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY; MANUFACTURE; OPTIMIZATION; POSITIVE IONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; SECURITY OF DATA; SPECIFICATIONS; STANDARDS;

ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958133042     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-010-0016-6     Document Type: Article

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