Absolute quantitative total-body small-animal SPECT with focusing pinholes

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2127-2135

  Wu, Chao ^a,b   Van Der Have, Frans ^b,c,d   Vastenhouw, Brendan ^b,c,d   Dierckx, Rudi A J O ^a   Paans, Anne M J ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MILabs BV   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Quantification; Quantitative imaging; Small animal imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CAMERA; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FEMALE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; RAT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 77958456842     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-010-1519-9     Document Type: Article

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